Sunday, December 17, 2006

Good Information--PLEASE TAKE NOTE!!!!




Good Information

 
Many of you may have already read this but ALL of us should forward this on to our address book to ensure that we do not receive unacceptable petitions in the future.


PLEASE TAKE NOTE!!!!

To whom it all concerns:

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.

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.

(If you have been sending out the above kinds of email, now you know why you
get so much spam!)

Check it out:  <
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.htm>
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.htm




1 comment:

  1. I have alway's wondered that, I never sign those things or send them on, I thought it was something like what your saying here.....

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