[LINK] SPAM from Palmer United Party

[Tom Worthington]

Today I found I had 21 email messages from Clive Palmer of the Palmer 
United Party. I understand that political parties are exempt from Spam 
legislation, but apart from urging everyone I know to not vote for the 
Palmer United Party, is there some why to stop this? Can Mr Palmer's 
companies, which presumably funding this Spam, be prosecuted?

Two of the emails were to my ACS addresses, two to my ANU addresses and 
the rest my company addresses. Some of the addresses I have not used for 
some time. It appears that the Palmer United Party harvested the email 
addresses from web pages.

The email contains a link to Alacrity Technologies, which appears to be 
a reputable company (with a reference from Brett Chandler, Commander, 
Royal Australian Navy on its home page). Alacrity might want to consider 
the negative effect on its reputation which an association with Spammers 
will have: http://www.alacritytech.com.au/


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