Bernard is right on this, do not sign any petitions or forward them. I just want to add that if you feel strongly about the matter that is being petitioned you should email your gov't. reps personally and they do listen to email.:)a voice heard from in Mi.--- On Wed 11/22, Bernard Pelow < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:From: Bernard Pelow [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:40:29 -0600Subject: [TMIC] OT - do not sign petitionsI just found this out folks...PLEASE TAKE NOTE! This should be sent to ALL your E-mail addressees. Just a word to the wise, E-mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other municipality. To be acceptable petitions must have a signed signature and full address. Almost all e-mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all this type of e-mail is, is to get names and "cookie" tracking info for tele-marketers and spammers to validate active e-mail accounts for their own purposes. Any time you see an e-mail that says forward this on to "10" of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get good luck, or whatever, has either an e-mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and e-mails of those folks you forward to, or the host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of "active" e-mails to use in spam e-mails, or sell to others that do.Please forward this notice to others and you will be providing a good service to your friends and will be rewarded by not getting 30,000 spam e-mails in the future.Check it out: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.htm
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