If you are going to pass something along?, Let it be this !
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. Same with "prayer chains" --- be wary.
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 information for telemarketers 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 forwarded to, or the host sender is getting a copy EACH time it gets
forwarded and then is able to get lists of "active" e-mail accounts to use in
spam e-mails, or sell to others that do.
Please forward this information 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 e-mails, now you know
why you are getting so much spam !)
Check it out: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.htm