Truth about petitions

            (check it out with Truth or Fiction & Snopes below.)

                       I'm sending this as an FYI for those who get those
                       email petitions and wonder if you should add your
                       name and send on.
                       
                       Email petitions are NOT acceptable to the US
                       Congress, President or any municipality nor are
                       they legally acceptable in Canada.  To be
                       acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature
                       and full address. Almost all the email that asks
                       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 other email is designed 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, etc., it
                       has either an email tracker program attached that
                       tracks the cookies and emails of those folks you
                       forward to or the original host sender is getting
                       a copy each time it is forwarded and then is able
                       to get lists of "active" emails to use in spam
                       emails or sell to others that do. Give everybody a
                       break by not forwarding all those petitions and
                       return to sender emails, etc. The best thing to do
                       with this type of email is delete them even though
                       they try to make you feel guilty if you don't
                       forward them immediately !!!
                       
                       Click below to check it out with Truth or Fiction
            & Snopes.
                       
                       http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/p/petitions.htm
                   
                       
                       also see:

            http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.htm