Do e-mail petitions work?
(Salon: “Chain letters and spam rarely impress politicians — but they might listen to a more personal breed of Web activism.”) • Hoax e-mail becomes government worker’s nightmare (Rose Lambert, a US gov’t worker, is sorry she passed along an urban legend warning) • Claire Swire (demonstrates how quickly forwarding a message can multiple) • Break the Chain: Stop Junk E-Mail and Misinformation • Do Not Respond To Sarabande Chain Letter (Brandeis’s official response to the Afghanistan Women’s Rights petition — from archive.org) • Don’t forward email petitions (“Email petitions do more harm than good.”) • are email petitions spam? (A mathematical discussion) • www.e-petition.org (a web-based alternative to the chain letter style petitions) • Save the [blank]! (“There are numerous problems with pass-it-along email petitions”) • Dead Chain Letters (A page set up in penance for forwarding the Afghanistan Womens Right’s petition) • Latest HOAX, Scam, Urban Legend, Chain E-Mail, etc. Informat
