This is great, Ian. I will carefully share some of this info, without any identification to you, as we move forward. The routing info is especially controversial right now -- and might be a route to shut down this practice. CIRA can't forbid the practice but I wonder if they could forbid and foreign routing of such messages.

Marita

My version:

To: elections@cira.ca
Cc: Matthew Gamble <mgamble@mgamble.ca>
Subject: unsolicited CIRA election email from Matthew Gamble

Hello CIRA Elections -

I recently received an unsolicited mass spam email containing USA tracking links from board candidate Matthew Gamble.

The CIRA election page says clearly that this must not happen:

"CIRA strongly encourages members who receive the list to only contact those members who are part of their professional and/or social circle and to refrain from sending unsolicited mass emails to respect members’ privacy.  CIRA also requires that any email sent to members not include tracking links and that members’ information remain in Canada."

1. I do not know Matthew Gamble.  This is an unsolicited mass spam email.

2. The message contains tracking links via his personal domain mgamble.ca that is hosted outside Canada.  CIRA says no tracking, and no information outside Canada.

3. A reply to the spam email sends my name and email address outside Canada into Google.com via the MX record for his personal domain "mgamble.ca"

This CIRA board member and candidate has broken all these CIRA rules to spam votes for re-election.

What are the consequences?

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