I wondered what was up when I started getting weird little email updates from the Republican National Committee at my Yahoo! email adress a few weeks ago. In fact, I'm tempted to send them a nasty email telling them that I'm not a Republican, don't want to be, and that I'll be filing a lawsuit if they keep foisting their crap off on my email account. I'd also like to know how I got on their little list, because I certainly didn't sign up for it, like a bunch of other poor saps.
Apparently, a lot of people who get services from Yahoo! have had similar things happend to them, and it's almost enough to get me to stop using the account, except I have almost everything going to that address. I suspect this may be the case for many others out there, and while I understand that Yahoo! needs ad revenue, and the Republicans have the right to advertise, just like everyone else, ads to get on this list have popped up in mailing lists run by individuals, including proressive and leftist mailing lists, making it look like the RNC list was being promoted by the list owners.
Whether it's legal isn't the issue, it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.