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Word To The Wise

Mar 11, 2007

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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-mail 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 wants to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. These e-mails are set up to get names and "cookie" tracking info 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 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. By not forwarding this type of E-mail and you will be providing a good service to your friends and will be rewarded by not getting 3000 spam e-mails in the future. Give everybody a break by not forwarding all those petitions.
This has been checked out on "snopes.com." It is certainly worth noting.