[LINK] Spam from New Australian Prime Minister

David Boxall david.boxall at hunterlink.net.au
Fri Jun 28 08:50:17 AEST 2013


On 28/06/2013 8:29 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
> Appended is a curious email I received, from "Kevin", the new Prime
> Minister, asking for donations to the ALP. The language used in the
> message does not match previous public statements by the PM. I am not a
> member or volunteer for any political party, so I am not sure why I got it.
>
> Spam Assassin gave it a low score (1.1), with tests activated: BAYES_20
> -0.001, DCC_CHECK 1.1, HTML_MESSAGE 0.001, LANGUAGES en,  BAYES_USED
> user, SA_VERSION 3.3.2
>
> So I have marked it as Spam to train the filter to block future such
> messages and also clicked the "un-subscribe" button.
>
> Did anyone else get this? Is there some way to stop members of
> Parliament sending such messages?
>
>
I got one, identical. If it's genuine, then Labor is going the right way 
to lose more votes.

Perhaps it's a Coalition plot.

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