{"id":561,"date":"2007-06-11T00:06:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T00:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2007-06-11T00:06:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T00:06:26","slug":"muriel-newman-spam-mistress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Muriel Newman, Spam Mistress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Muriel Newman of NZ pseudo-Libertarian party ACT spammed me.
\nHer NZ Centre for Political Research (formerly the NZ Centre for Political Debate, an interesting shift of title) – which may just be her alone<\/a> – was banging the drum recently for the return to our old electoral system, specifically calling for a referendum on the proportional MMP system currently in place. She was exhorting people to answer a poll question about whethe the referendum was needed, and after coming across this in one or two places I clicked through to indicate my opposition. (This post isn’t about why I oppose, it’s about what happened next.)
\nNot long after a chirpy email turned up in my inbox from Muriel, thanking me for participating and telling me that “the vast majority of respondents are very keen to see a referendum on MMP held”. Also, “I have added your name to the NZCPR Weekly mailing list, so please let me know if you don\u2019t want to receive it.”
\nGreat. So I was now on a spam list. I went down to the newsletter, reproduced at the bottom of the respondent email, and clicked the ‘unsubscribe’ link. An unsubscribe note was sent, and that was the end of it – what a nuisance, and how foolish of Newman to subscribe automatically people who entirely disagreed with her. If nothing else, a significant breach of net etiquette and a bad look for a politician.
\nThen, a week later, another email arrived. I was still on the list. Excellent. So a political operative who I really have no time for has subscribed me to her emailing list without asking permission and seems unable to process my request to unsubscribe. That’s not just a breach of etiquette – it’s amateurish and stupid, to boot.
\nI sent the unsubscribe request again. Go away this time Muriel, will you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Muriel Newman of NZ pseudo-Libertarian party ACT spammed me. Her NZ Centre for Political Research (formerly the NZ Centre for Political Debate, an interesting shift of title) – which may just be her alone – was banging the drum recently for the return to our old electoral system, specifically calling for a referendum on the … Continue reading Muriel Newman, Spam Mistress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-93","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}