"Thank you for all your work"

[Kulindahr]

Last week I dropped a question on Obama's web site. I still haven't gotten a reply, but three days ago I got an "update" about some happenings, and then today I got another.

This one made me laugh, because it both started and ended with, "Thank you for all your work".

It makes me wonder if they read their mail. See, I replied to the first update, which included an exhortation to register new voters, by telling them that any new voters I get registered will be Libertarians.

And the very next day they tell me, "Thanks for all your work."

 

[swerve]

MONTHS ago -- in an effort to LEARN about Obama...

I had to give them my EMail address to sign into their website...

I used to get approx. 2 emails per day from them...

WHEN I got UPSET with his pandering to the "religious right" by saying he wants to EXPAND Bush's Faith Based Initiaves program -- I ASKED to be TAKEN OFF from his EMail list...

SURPRISINGLY -- THEY REMOVED ME!!!

So -- I SUSPECT -- SOMEONE is actually READING their EMails...

Sorry you haven't received a response to your question yet...

 

[Lostlover]

MONTHS ago -- in an effort to LEARN about Obama...

I had to give them my EMail address to sign into their website...

I used to get approx. 2 emails per day from them...

WHEN I got UPSET with his pandering to the "religious right" by saying he wants to EXPAND Bush's Faith Based Initiaves program -- I ASKED to be TAKEN OFF from his EMail list...

SURPRISINGLY -- THEY REMOVED ME!!!

So -- I SUSPECT -- SOMEONE is actually READING their EMails...

Sorry you haven't received a response to your question yet...

Bigots in the religious right have the right to vote too. That's why they're "pandering" to them.

 

[swerve]

Bigots in the religious right have the right to vote too. That's why they're "pandering" to them.

The point of my post was that SOMEONE apparently ACTUALLY reads their emails...

I don't feel like rehashing my opposition to this DANGEROUS program...

Maybe I could have worded my post better...

 

[Kulindahr]

Some states won't let you register as a Libertarian. Were these emails "thanking you" for your "hard work" addressed to you, or general form letters or update emails that go out to everyone?

Why are you even communicating with the Obama campaign? From all your posts, I thought you were pulling for McCain.

What posts of mine make it sound like I'm for McCain?

They had the marks of form mails, but that just makes my point: they're not actually checking on who they put on their lists.

My original reason for contacting them was a question.

 

[RandomAccess]

What posts of mine make it sound like I'm for McCain?

They had the marks of form mails, but that just makes my point: they're not actually checking on who they put on their lists.

My original reason for contacting them was a question.

I'm sure you realize, Kuli, with communications being what they are today, the campaign gets (probably) hundreds of thousands, if not more, emails and/or snail mails a day. To digest and respond to each would be a mind-bogglingly overwhelming job. It'd take thousands of volunteers. Volunteers who are already stretched thin answering phones, stuffing envelopes, canvasing, etc. That they received your letter, entered you into their database, and affirmed your correspondence with a reply is pretty impressive in itself. Sure, you'd like an answer to your particular question, but I wouldn't hold my breath!

 

[Kulindahr]

I'm sure you realize, Kuli, with communications being what they are today, the campaign gets (probably) hundreds of thousands, if not more, emails and/or snail mails a day. To digest and respond to each would be a mind-bogglingly overwhelming job. It'd take thousands of volunteers. Volunteers who are already stretched thin answering phones, stuffing envelopes, canvasing, etc. That they received your letter, entered you into their database, and affirmed your correspondence with a reply is pretty impressive in itself. Sure, you'd like an answer to your particular question, but I wouldn't hold my breath!

Okay, but why did they put me into a database that sounds like it's for volunteers for his organization when all I did was answer a question about a policy position? That seems pretty sloppy to me.

 

[RandomAccess]

Okay, but why did they put me into a database that sounds like it's for volunteers for his organization when all I did was answer a question about a policy position? That seems pretty sloppy to me.

I'll bet, for the time being, the friends and supporters database is the only database they're using. They're so buried that they don't have time to sort them. They're in crunch mode. . . cram as many addresses into the database as you can, assume they're on our side, and let 'er fly! Plug in the Internet & burn-up some Sempron processors running the email bots. That's how I'd do it if I had, say, 20 volunteers, a tractor-trailer load of mail and a butt-load of email in one day!

Just guessing, but I'll bet I'm not too far off!

 

[Yuki Sohma]

Last week I dropped a question on Obama's web site. I still haven't gotten a reply, but three days ago I got an "update" about some happenings, and then today I got another.

This one made me laugh, because it both started and ended with, "Thank you for all your work".

It makes me wonder if they read their mail. See, I replied to the first update, which included an exhortation to register new voters, by telling them that any new voters I get registered will be Libertarians.

And the very next day they tell me, "Thanks for all your work."

The Librarian Party?

Just kiddin'...................hey K., they're just glad to hear from you...................maybe they figure that at least a vote for a Libertarian candidate is not a vote for the GOP candidate...................or maybe quite simply...................well I don't know why they are so impersonal...................I think that they should at least make an attempt to directly address the subject of your correspondence...................

 

[Kulindahr]

Sarcasm any?

You're voting, right? Have you figured which candidate will do the least damage for your interests yet?

No sarcasm; if you've been seeing my posts in this forum you should remember that I consider McCain as no friend of any part of the Bill of Rights, a liar and poser who will pursue religious discrimination most determinedly, and likely establish a Homeland Security "internal police" besides bankrupting the country beyond recovery.

I'm tempted at this point to do as my mom and several of her friends plan: write in Ron Paul, who's the first candidate in years a lot of people around here have actually gotten excited about. But since both major candidates favor steps toward a stronger police state, there's no way I'm voting for either of them.

 

[Kulindahr]

I'll bet, for the time being, the friends and supporters database is the only database they're using. They're so buried that they don't have time to sort them. They're in crunch mode. . . cram as many addresses into the database as you can, assume they're on our side, and let 'er fly! Plug in the Internet & burn-up some Sempron processors running the email bots. That's how I'd do it if I had, say, 20 volunteers, a tractor-trailer load of mail and a butt-load of email in one day!

Just guessing, but I'll bet I'm not too far off!

It shouldn't take much code at all to have a separate path for question e-mails: distinct database, fire back an automatic response asking "Would you like to receive update and other mailings from us?"
The fact that they didn't suggests to me that however much a certain ad is poking at McCain for not being computer savvy, these guys don't have creative computer techs on staff.