Seriously, do you have any idea how much inbound e-mail they are on the receiving end of? My list has 170,000+ people on it and we get so much mail every day that it’s a huge challenge to filter out the valid stuff from the tidal waves of spam. We do our best, but I’m sure we miss a few. I imagine that DFA (which is a much more high profile target) has the same problem to a much higher degree.

That’s why I suggested breaking out of e-mail and using the phone — e-mails can get lost (especially when they go to a general mailbox, rather than a specific person), but phone calls can’t.

I agree that their system is borked, but they can’t fix it if they don’t know about it.

To clear up the relationship between Blue State and DFA: there are a lot of new companies that were formed by the diaspora of Dean tech people after the campaign, among them Blue State, CivicSpaceLabs, Political Technologies, and others as well. I’ve talked to people from Blue State before and they are not scuzz buckets.

I’d tend to agree with Joe that it’s probably just an oversight. As someone who runs a mailing list myself, I’d want to know if people couldn’t unsubscribe — having people on the list who don’t want to be there does me no good and causes me lots of heartburn — so I’d say it’s worth making the call to DFA and seeing if they can’t straighten things out.

This is why I don’t like people who believe in things too much. They can’t see the trees for the forest.