Petitions
 

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






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Re: Petitions
 

It's amazing how many people don't already know this but anyone who has been
around awhile or tries at all to learn anything more than AOL email
hopefully has it figured out.

I have a couple of older relatives that I think I will send this to. It's
hard to tell them this, and the use of BCC without sounding like I am
snapping at them.

Kate


"§qu@r3 Wh33£s" <bubonic@germ.net> wrote in message
news:z5zvh.838580$R63.568208@pd7urf1no...
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> We Need a President Who's Fluent In At Least One Language
>

Re: Petitions
 

It's amazing how many people don't already know this but anyone who has been
around awhile or tries at all to learn anything more than AOL email
hopefully has it figured out.

I have a couple of older relatives that I think I will send this to. It's
hard to tell them this, and the use of BCC without sounding like I am
snapping at them.

Kate


"§qu@r3 Wh33£s" <bubonic@germ.net> wrote in message
news:z5zvh.838580$R63.568208@pd7urf1no...
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> We Need a President Who's Fluent In At Least One Language
>

Re: Petitions
 

It's amazing how many people don't already know this but anyone who has been
around awhile or tries at all to learn anything more than AOL email
hopefully has it figured out.

I have a couple of older relatives that I think I will send this to. It's
hard to tell them this, and the use of BCC without sounding like I am
snapping at them.

Kate


"§qu@r3 Wh33£s" <bubonic@germ.net> wrote in message
news:z5zvh.838580$R63.568208@pd7urf1no...
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> We Need a President Who's Fluent In At Least One Language
>

Re: Petitions
 

It's amazing how many people don't already know this but anyone who has been
around awhile or tries at all to learn anything more than AOL email
hopefully has it figured out.

I have a couple of older relatives that I think I will send this to. It's
hard to tell them this, and the use of BCC without sounding like I am
snapping at them.

Kate


"§qu@r3 Wh33£s" <bubonic@germ.net> wrote in message
news:z5zvh.838580$R63.568208@pd7urf1no...
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> We Need a President Who's Fluent In At Least One Language
>

Re: Petitions
 

§qu@r3 Wh33£s wrote:


< 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.


Say what? There are no email tracking programs, yet.

Re: Petitions
 

§qu@r3 Wh33£s wrote:


< 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.


Say what? There are no email tracking programs, yet.

Re: Petitions
 

§qu@r3 Wh33£s wrote:


< 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.


Say what? There are no email tracking programs, yet.

Re: Petitions
 

§qu@r3 Wh33£s wrote:


< 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.


Say what? There are no email tracking programs, yet.

Re: Petitions
 

On this day of this month, in a year likely to be unrecorded in human
history, Scott in Baltimore wrote:

> §qu@r3 Wh33£s wrote:
>
>
> < 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.
>
>
> Say what? There are no email tracking programs, yet.

They've been around for ages; it all started with the transparent
monopixel GIF tracker - crude but effective.

http://www.spector.com/email-tracking-software.html

http://www.msgtag.com/Email_Tracking_Software.html

http://www.business.com/directory/ad...ware/tracking/

http://www.emailtools.co.uk/iTracker.htm

And pages and pages and pages more.

Snopes.com is very seldom wrong. ;^)





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We Need a President Who's Fluent In At Least One Language