Will Chapman wrote:
> We had a report of wife trying to sign the e-petition as well
> as husband but being unable to do so from the same email address.
>
> On asking the petition support people about this they replied:
>
>> Your email address is already succesfully signed up to that petition
>> (under the name John **). I'm afraid that there is a trade-off to be
>> made between allowing anyone to sign the petitions regardless of
>> having an email address, and protecting the petitions from too much
>> abuse.
>>
>> We have come down on the side of using one email address per person
> to act as an anti-abuse mechanism
>> because it is now possible for anyone to get an email address for
> free in a few moments. On the converse,
>> if we let people use one address to sign multiple times we will
> likely see considerable fake signatures
>> almost straight away.
>
> So the message is to use a separate email address for each member
> of your family. You can do this easily by getting a temp address from
> yahoo (not that the petition site warns about problems with hotmail
> addresses).

You can also get an e-mail address from 
http://mail.lycos.com/lycos/Index.lycos with just a few clicks.  Better 
still buy your own domain, and then you get *unlimited* e-mail addresses!  I 
can have [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( - don't try using that, the 
spam filters are set to allow only certain addresses!)


Ron Jones
Process Safety & Development Specialist
Don't repeat history, unreported chemical lab/plant near misses at
http://www.crhf.org.uk Only two things are certain: The universe and
human stupidity; and I'm not certain about the universe. ~ Albert
Einstein 


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