Now, that may just have been coincidental – a typo, let’s say – as I didn’t hear or see any other reports of the issue. But the possibility exists the forward-to-a-friend form on Obama’s site was being targeted for abuse – regardless of the initiator’s political leanings.

As was mentioned on the list, political email campaigns in particular are prone to malicious seeding of random/trap address in an attempt to get the candidate/party’s email blocked. It’s really a wonder to me that any candidate can get away with single opt-in – let alone things like appends or list purchases – without seeing severe deliverability problems.

In any case, it’ll be interesting to see this particular issue play out.