I use them all the time. As for which sites to go to, it depends on the issues you're interested in "voting" on, and what your persuasion is. I also send a fair amount of emails and faxes to my elected officials through their government sites or through other websites (such as Congress.org). I have no idea if these sites use FOSS. As far as if they work, I'm guessing you mean if they get results with politicians. I'm pretty sure they do because a couple years ago Congress tried to say they weren't going to accept comments from such sites. People got upset, and I believe Congress backed off the issue. Hope that helps, Nick On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu>wrote: > A little off topic but you guys seem to know things like this. Also, I > would prefer a site that uses FOSS software, just because. > > There are sites on the web that allow users to enter a petition and to > collect "signatures". Have any of you used these petition sites? Are any > of them supposed to be better than others? I would be concerned mostly > about sites that harvest email addresses or other information from > signatories. Otherwise I just want to know that the site works. > > Thanks in advance. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Art: http://www.coroflot.com/bellsoffreedom Blog: cognitivealchemy.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080911/476b0d65/attachment.htm