Internet Petitions

Snopes Warning

Pass this one on to all your e-mail buddies and take the time to read
the Snopes.com article above. It is full of good advice especially
about the "cookies."

Just a word to the wise. E-mail petitions are NOT acceptable to any
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, 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, it
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.

(If you have been sending out the above kinds of email, now you know
why you get so much spam!)