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I have been noticing a trend. Every time I forward an email from "Vote Ron Paul" I have to "verify" that I am?

not a spammer. The following message appears "Verification

To help us fight spam, please enter the character string as it is shown in the box below.

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Why do I have to do this?

This step helps Yahoo! prevent spammers from using Yahoo! Mail, and helps to ensure that your email will be delivered.

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I wouldn't even have a thought in the world about this EXCEPT that I noticed it happening overwhelmingly to mails having to do with Ron Paul. Sometimes it also does it with stories from "Politico"...but it is rare for it to happen to any other type of forwarded message and I am finding that increasingly bizarre. I have been watching this for a few months and I know this is not a coincidence...can't be...the odds of that are ridiculously high. Have any of you noticed this with your accounts?

We are seeing strange things in the political arena these days and I am not a conspiracy theorist but this seems really unusual to me. We have a Congressman urging our President not to make an "enemies list" as Nixon did. We are seeing our WH on talk shows urging stations to "boycott" Fox News and to "not pick up their stories". We are hearing about our President pushing for control over the internet for "cyber security" reasons. I don't think it is out of the realm of possibility that people who openly disagree (even regular citizens aka "We the People") with the Presidential policies are being "flagged" or "watched". Any thoughts on this?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    What I can't figure out is why a candidate (Paul) who tells the truth and actually has the audacity to mention the Constitution seems to attract hoards of overzealous followers of the fringe variety. This mystifies me, I would expect zealous fringers to be Libertarians or anarchists. Don't they realize he is a Republican? These folks have stooped to some pretty low tactics to "get the word out". No doubt Yahoo! computers notice such trends and guard against it.

    Or it could be for the same reason that the Yahoo! judges take a hard line with any anti-Obama questions or answers. Probably lots of young people working there and we all know who they (who don't remember the Cold War to prevent World domination by communists) voted for. And Ron Paul is the competition. You do the math.

  • 1 decade ago

    Because a lot of people will forward these political emails simply for spam and possibly scamming money out of people.

  • 1 decade ago

    WELCOME TO THE NEW AGE OF OBAMA!

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