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
