None, usually .. moveon.org etc have done all that nonsense before, stateside. Not had much effect that I know of. Even less of a point in India where "how many people" isn’t the question, "who are the people" is.
No point in this kind of astroturf where X people sign on to send the same boilerplate to the same people. -----Original Message----- From: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus....@lists.hserus.net [mailto:silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus....@lists.hserus.net] On Behalf Of Abhijit Menon-Sen Sent: Monday, 9 November 2009 10:17 AM To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] online petitions to gov.in Does anyone have examples of online petitions addressed to a Government body (e.g. the PMO) that have been taken note of and acted upon? Did the number of signatures make a difference? Are there any government bodies that routinely take such petitions seriously? -- ams
