Re: Petition?

From: Jeremy Kinsey (jer@mia.net)
Date: Sat Sep 20 2003 - 11:42:24 EDT


On Saturday, September 20, 2003, at 10:25 AM, Andy Coates wrote:

> George Kirikos (gkirikos@yahoo.com) wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> --- Jeremy Kinsey <jer@mia.net> wrote:
>>> What happened to the petition?
>>> http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?icanndns
>>>
>>> Am I missing something? It is at like 178 sigs..
>>>
>>> This morning when I looked at it, it was at 11,807
>>
>> Yes, I'm not sure either. When I woke up this morning, it was showing
>> 9,000 and less, and then it went down to 178? Freaky. Tried calling
>> PetitionOnline.com a few times, and left a message, but no response.
>> Then we had a power outage in my area of Toronto, due to Isabel
>> knocking down trees all over the place. Washington Post called, too.
>
> I read somewhere the list was reset because of fears spam harvesters
> would jump at the chance for a big list of emails/contacts.
>
> It wasn't confirmed anywhere, but it kinda makes sense.
>
>

That could be possible, but you have the option of not showing your
email, which is what I did.. I think (from what I read) that there was
a technical problem that caused it however.. At least it is back up,
and someone had the foresight to back up the petition at 10k.

Regards,
Jeremy Anthony Kinsey
  e-mail: jer@mia.net
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