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Subject: [FOLKLORE] if Urban Legends Reference Internet Petition wouldnt open
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:34:05 EST

if that link wouldnt open heres what it said in general

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.

So you get them just delete them. There not worth what they say.

Russ Dean
H. A. S. 2008 @ Marshall University, Huntington, WV
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