Almost a month ago, Laura hosted a delivery carnival on list rentals.

I’d like to do the same thing with a recent news item. It appears as though an ESP is sending mail out for the Executive Office of the President. Good for them.

However, this campaign, which sought to create a viral email in support of President Obama’s health care initiatives, seems to have upset some recipients…. Recipients who claim that neither did they sign up for the email nor were forwarded it from someone they knew.

It is the anger and upset that I want us to deal with in this carnival. One private comment indicated that this is normal both for politics and for email marketing, and I think that’s true. So, let’s take the politics out of this.

How do you handle a campaign that upsets large numbers of people?

The deadline for this blog carnival will be….*drum roll* Monday, August 31, 2009. To post a submission, send a quick email with the permalink to your post to blogcarnival – at – spamtacular.com.

Please note something about this carnival. We’re serious when we say to leave the politics out of it. Post submissions that contain the message that a certain politician’s, or some political party’s emails can do no wrong or can never be right will be rejected. Passing mentions of politics (like “I got signed up for some group’s list and didn’t ask to be on it”) will be acceptable, but it’s the response to the madness that we want to examine, not the rightness or wrongness of what some group of politicians is or isn’t doing.