okay okay so I'm officially a moron, but what do you expect when a friend sends you a petition from a committee on which she actually sits? I sent her an email today telling her that the whole petition is just a way of getting people's email addresses so they can spam about other stuff. She replied back, quite upset obviously that she had been taken for a ride.
I was also quite upset as she had given these people all the email addresses of our CL 507 class (about 28 people) so I guess I'm about to be spammed hardcore by someone or other. Aren't you all glad I put it up on my blog rather than sending you all the petition? At least I wasn't bad dumb, just silly naive dumb.