Subject: Good Info from Snopes.com   
      
   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 "cookies" 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.   
      
   Please forward this notice 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.   
      
   Check it out for yourself: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.htm   
   http://www.snopes.com (below).   
      
   (The page on Snopes is copyrighted with restrictions else would have    
   inserted here.)   
      
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