Quantum Forest

I have received a couple of spam emails from the Tasmanian Liberal^* Party, specifically Rene Hidding (leader of the opposition). I use spam defined as “one or more unsolicited messages, sent or posted as part of a larger collection of messages, all having substantially identical content” (from here). In addition to being spammed, I received one of the most obfuscated pieces of political writing that I have ever seen (see this post too):

It is timely and appropriate that we move down the pathway of delivering real downstream processing of our significant resource endowments to capitalise on the delivery of new energy infrastructure (comment: this is supposed to refer to the construction of a pulpmill).

Why do politicians fail to understand and use email appropriately? I guess that they would not make phone calls using reverse charge to play a tape full of propaganda. Spam is like that; I pay (with time and connection charges) to download unsolicited material. Then the question is “would you vote for someone with no respect for other people’s privacy?” I would not.

^*By the way, despite of their name, Liberals are in fact quite conservative. Linguistic contradictions…

P.S. At the time of posting this article I emailed the Liberal Party. A week later I received an apology for an ‘error in the system’.