[LINK] Spam from New Australian Prime Minister

[Chris Maltby]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 08:29:26AM +1000, 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
...
> <https://australianlaborparty.nationbuilder.com/donate?e=5771c2e4faf5078ca9a0b7dc5b8eb89438022b1a&utm_source=australianlaborparty&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=kevinemail3&n=2&recruiter_id=234297>.

It's genuine. Have a look at <http://nationbuilder.com/> to see what
they do for people running political campaigns. It's a company set up
to package and sell some of the Obama campaign online "magic"...

The fact that they are seeking donations from individual voters and
not from the usual suspects in the large corporates is a good sign
for politics - pity they didn't have the will to legislate to put
caps and other limits on donations and campaign spending as has
happened in NSW.

Chris