Many of you may have already read this but ALL of us should forward this
on to our address book to ensure that we do not receive unacceptable
petitions in the future.
PLEASE TAKE NOTE!!!!
To whom it all concerns:
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, 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!)
Check it out: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.htm