A while back (months ago!) I started getting spam from the Kasich for Ohio group – they were begging for support for Issue 2 and begging for money to help their side make SB5 the law… I know I never signed up for it (the only thing I would sign is a recall petition). I ignored the problem figuring they would go away once they lost on Issue 2. No such luck. Now they just beg for money.
Inertia is so much easier, so I put up with it for weeks. Today I decided enough is enough and looked for the unsubscribe link. Morons… they require me to type my email address in a form to unsubscribe. Several addresses are assigned to the mailbox so I type in the address I send mail from, figuring that they stole addresses from state agencies (I used the email address on my business registration paperwork and used it to send an email to Gov. Strickland’s office over a tax matter[1]).
I checked the message header – I don’t know where the morons got that email address from but its definitely not an address that I used for anything official. I used it only for purchases years ago (DUH! that’s why it contains _buy@). I haven’t used it for purchases at least the last 5 years (I use a gmail address for that purpose now). It’s not in google or bing searches, so its never been used publicly.
There is no way I signed up for anything with this address in the last 2 years and I would never, ever use this (or any other address of mine) for anything associated with support for Kasich.
After all this, I guess it’s no surprise that they don’t use SPF records for their domain:
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[1] Ohio wanted me to pay income taxes to them for the last year we lived in TN. All because I used an Ohio address on my federal tax return as we lived in Ohio at the time I filed the taxes. Ohio wanted either taxes for the previos year or proof I paid them to another state but TN doesn’t have state taxes so I didn’t have proof. After weeks of back and forth and sending proof to the tax agency that we lived in TN, I contacted the governor’s office for help because the deadline for payment passed and we hadn’t heard if my proof that we lived in TN when the income was earned was accepted.