Why Should You Vote For…

I recieved an email from a Magsaysay International with a subject “Do you know your candidate?”. The first part of the body has large text saying, “Why should you vote for Vic Magsaysay for Senator?”

I guess the candidates’ PR teams have discovered email. I’m curious with how and where they got this list. Looking at the ‘to’ field, it seems that the email was sent to local bloggers including two email addresses of Sir Joel and three belonging to Janette Toral of Digital Filipino. The list ranged from names beginning with H to M.

I do hope that the source of this list is not from a form that I submitted that had a Privacy Policy that said it wouldn’t give away my email address.

I want to reply to this email and ask a couple of questions. As a challenge to this Magsaysay dude’s PR team, I’m waiting for them to post a comment on this post. I’d like to know if they see blogging as another medium for communication/PR, if they even read blogs or watch the local “blogosphere”.

  • Hahaha!
  • nash
    my spam filter will slay you. i'm no longer working on pc platform you know...mostly linux and mac....ha!

    ps, i plugged your email into some porn sites....
  • Haha! Since I'm Filipino, I inherit the crab mentality and I'll give your email address away.
  • nash
    this is what happens when people link too much.....:D
  • The email was sent to my GMail address which I never published. It can only be seen in mirrored archives of PLUG and a couple of other places a bit "far" from the local blogosphere/pattern of the list.
  • Thanks for the heads-up on this one. As I've been getting an e-mail deluge from various candidates, I tend to least prioritized them in terms of reading it. As to where they got it, those three email addresses of mine are shown in two of my websites. I guess when you publicly display your e-mail address, it implies an impression that you are willing to receive communication from the public. I hope you can attend the iBlog3 event this Friday and Saturday.
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