One of the problem of campaign decentralization is that those things might happen. Another problem is that a “competitor” might decide to spam on behalf of Dean and then raise a fuss about the spam incident.

I believe that a clear and easy to find statement on the site about the campaign’s attitude re:spam (maybe a button the size of the “grassroot never sleeps” or “get local” one linking to a page decrying spam) would be very helpful in inoculating against this.

Three things that would be needed as part of such effort:
1. A clear statement about the campaign’s position re:spam
2. A form where people could send in copies of the spam message (with full headers) to the campaign for analysis.
3. A list of spam messages and information about what action the campaign took to stop that one.

Such an approach would show that the campaign not only opposes spam but is doing something to try to avoid spam episodes from over-eager supporters.