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The truth about Email Petitions
 
  Please take note
 
 To whom it all concerns,
 
 Just a word to the wise. Email petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress
or any other municipality. To be acceptable petitions must have a signed
signature and full address. Almost all email 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 wants
to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was and
all this email is is to get names and "cookie" tracking info for
tele-marketers and spammers to validate active email accounts for their own
purposes. Any time you see an email that says forward this on to "10" of
your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get good luck or whatever, has
either an email tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and emails
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" emails to
use in spam emails or sell to others that do.
 
 FYI If you want to forward stuff like this because it's interesting,
take off all the "front" info and all the forwards and DON'T add your name
to them.
 
 Take care. Beware.
 
 Forward this to others and you will be providing a good service to your
friends and will be rewarded by not getting 30000 spam emails in the
future.
 
 I always doubted if these email petitions ever accomplished anything.
Now I am going to delete all petitions no matter what they promote. If
anyone can show me where a petition has ever had any results I will
reconsider.
 
 NOTE: there are very, very few petitions that allow you to sign up on the
internet and those have specific web sites you must go to in order to do
so.
 
 Give everybody a break by not forwarding all those petitions.
 
 Click below to check it out with Truth or Fiction.
 
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/p/petitions.htm