I have a cautionary tale to share with you today.
Electronic signatures are meaningless, no matter how many hundreds of thousands are collected.
Second, the University of Northern Colorado was not pleased to find its email system deluged with responses to the students' unauthorized mailing. All this was painfully clear within two weeks of its launch, but it was too late. The beast had taken on a life of its own. Fast-forward to 1998, three years later. The petition has seen the inside of hundreds of thousands of modems, probably more.