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. This is a great way to get names and "cookie" tracking information for telemarketers and spammers - to validate active E-mail accounts for their own purposes. 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. Avoid the temptation of forwarding any unnecessary email.
You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favor by sending this information to them; you will be providing a service to your friends and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam E-mails in the future! Also, please keep in mind that E-mail petitions are NOT acceptable in Congress or any other organization. To be acceptable, petitions must have an actual signature and full address of the person signing the petition.
Read the full story here... http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp
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