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To whom it may concerns:
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" so 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.
The grand purpose of that kind of communication is 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 to "forward this on to '10' of your friends after signing this petition and 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, it's able to then get lists of "active" e-mails to use in spam e-mails or sell to others that do.
Please copy and send this notice to others and you will be providing a good service to your friends while being rewarded by not getting 30,000 spam e-mails in the future.
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