Your email plea will simply direct people to go to the website to sign. Make sure you include an expiration date in that email you send out. Check out the article below for more. I have a cautionary tale to share with you today. The authors were savvy enough to know that no right-minded American citizen would stand idly by as Bert and Ernie were condemned to sleep with the fishes.
Electronic signatures are meaningless, no matter how many hundreds of thousands are collected.
Second, Sesame Street was never in danger of cancellation, not even if PBS had been on its last legs. The petition was sent out under false pretenses. Third, the University of Northern Colorado was not pleased to find its email system deluged with responses to the students' unauthorized mailing. Fast-forward to 1998, three years later. They and officials of the University have issued repeated pleas for mailings of the petition to halt.