I stumbled across this link the other day while researching another political spam situation. It was a bit of suprise, as I'd competely forgotten the incident. You see, Bob Bownes, who is quoted in this article, was a roommate of mine in college, and at the time of this incident, he and I were both founders at NeWorks Networking, which is mentioned in the article.
Reading the article brought it all back.
Basically, in 1998 the Florida Democrats sent out a message
from the outgoing Governer Lawton Chiles plugging the
Democratic candidate to replace Chiles.
Anyway, here is the link to the Wall Street Journal article:
http://www.calvoter.org/news/wsj010599.html