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Thanks to Peet and A girl called jack, your signed petitions have just arrived. Thanks

Just thought I'd let you know.

I do hope that there'll be too many of them to acknowledge the receipt of every single one of then

Thanks for dealing with that as well, Peta!
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I'll let you know the numbers if I can!

That'd be ! Thanks!
Any idea of how many might be needed to change the "constitution"?
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How long is a piece of string? :- )

It's impossible to say what sort of effect this will have, it may not help, but it's certainly worth a try, Hey?...

At the very least it'll keep the dis-satisfied researchers happy for a while And once you have a big stack of letters you could hit people over the head with'em

Or maybe start collecting stamps

All good ideas! I'll bear them in mind. Hitting someone with them could be good!

Peta

Hiiiks! Bllbllbll nanana bllbllbll

So, were we the only two so far?

Peta probably doesn't want to encourage us... after all, the last petition I saw on h2g2 was Matthew Kershaw's "Right to have Rights", and look where that got him...

One can presume from Mark adding the room number to the address that there were enough that he got pestered by the mail sorting office...

I looked up a little bit about Matthew Kershaw's "Right to have rights" petition, but it looks like there may have been a lot of scattered conversations about it. Can you summarize the thing for me? (You said "Look where it got him..."?)

The petition that I saw had maybe two "signatures" on a forum, along with two complaints within the same thread.

Major difference between our petition and Kershaw's petition is that ours was inspired by the rules being changed by BBC. Kershaw's came out of nowhere. He just wanted to tinker with the copyright policy, even wanted to be PAID in h2g2 merchandise!

Yep, I think you have a pretty good summary of it all there...

Of course, the main difference between our petition and his is that we've got over 40 signatures without anything like the level of spam that Matthew used...

I wonder if the Editors could let us know how many have now arrived... by way of comparison, they might let us know how many researchers in the entire history of h2g2 have written actual physical letters to h2g2, for any other reason...