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SayNoTo0870.com E-Petition (Read 202,182 times)

Dave Global Moderator Offline Posts: 9,902 Yorkshire Gender:	Re: SayNoTo0870.com E-Petition Reply #105 - Feb 13^th, 2007 at 5:23pm Keith, do you know if you are connected via a proxy server?
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Re: SayNoTo0870.com E-Petition
Reply #106 - Feb 13^th, 2007 at 5:24pm

Keith wrote on Feb 13^th, 2007 at 5:11pm:

ASnd not looking forward to reentering my sites in the address bar.

That would only be deleted if you clicked the button to delete history. The delete temporary internet files button does not delete the remembered URLs of websites previously typed in your browser.

May be this issue is being caused by your ISP having some form of cache on popular web pages that they are requested and only updating that Cache periodically?

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Re: SayNoTo0870.com E-Petition
Reply #107 - Feb 13^th, 2007 at 5:28pm

Dave wrote on Feb 13^th, 2007 at 5:23pm:

Keith, do you know if you are connected via a proxy server?

There is something odd going on with the site as if you click the View menu and Reload on IE7 the number of signatures alternates repeatedly between two different numbers 70 or so votes apart. It doesn't just go up when you hit Reload, it goes up and down between those two fixed numbers.

It wasn't doing that on Sunday when I watched the road tolls petition going over the 1 million mark. It only went up each time I hit Reload.

I suspect there are now two different servers supporting the site and they are only periodically updating new signatures between one another. This is no doubt as a result of the amount of traffic being received.

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NGMsGhost Supreme Member Offline The Forum Ghost of NonGeographicalMan<b r /> Posts: 2,720 Surrey, United Kingdom Gender:	Re: SayNoTo0870.com E-Petition Reply #108 - Feb 13^th, 2007 at 5:31pm The anti 084/7 petition now has 6.380 votes and is at position 19 in the list, the highest it has reached so far. I can think of a couple of busy web forums where if it is mentioned repeatedly it will pick up a lot more votes. One is www.digitalspy.co.uk and the other is www.pistonheads.com
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Keith Senior Member Offline Posts: 378 Surrey Gender:	Re: SayNoTo0870.com E-Petition Reply #109 - Feb 13^th, 2007 at 5:38pm NGM - Thank you. Yes I deleted the wrong thing. I have now done it correctly and it is working fine. When I asked if there were any unpleasant consequences you clearly didn't take into account you were dealing with an idiot.
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Re: SayNoTo0870.com E-Petition
Reply #110 - Feb 13^th, 2007 at 5:44pm

Keith wrote on Feb 13^th, 2007 at 5:38pm:

NGM - Thank you. Yes I deleted the wrong thing. I have now done it correctly and it is working fine.

As long as you didn't delete your favourites too. Shocked

It shouldn't have been remembering the old page with the settings you had though. I think there is probably more than one computer centre supporting that website address now and that seems to be causing confusion to web browsers.

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Keith Senior Member Offline Posts: 378 Surrey Gender:	Re: SayNoTo0870.com E-Petition Reply #111 - Feb 13^th, 2007 at 6:09pm I get 6380 now every time, which is what you quoted sometime ago. So I'm starting to think it isn't me.
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NGMsGhost Supreme Member Offline The Forum Ghost of NonGeographicalMan<b r /> Posts: 2,720 Surrey, United Kingdom Gender:	Re: SayNoTo0870.com E-Petition Reply #112 - Feb 13^th, 2007 at 9:50pm Now in Position 17 with 7045 signatures. It looks like somebody has posted this up on a couple of major websites that are attracting in a lot of signatures as that's up 700 or over 10% in about 3 or 4 hours
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Reply #113 - Feb 13^th, 2007 at 11:03pm

I though this was mildly amusing:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6354735.stm

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A government minister has labelled the controversial online petitions on Downing Street's website as an own-goal thought up by a "prat". So how does the man behind the site defend it? And does the petition reliably reflect national mood? [...]

An unnamed minister has reportedly said the petitions website was dreamt up by a "prat" and was proving a public relations disaster. Tom Steinberg, who did not come up with the idea but did put it together, denies the minister was talking about him.

When Downing Street needed to make its e-democracy dream a reality, it approached MySociety, Steinberg's non-aligned organisation which builds websites to empower people in the civic and community aspects of their lives.

For example, its HearFromYourMP site pressures MPs to tell constituents who sign up what they are doing. [...]
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Another E-Petition
Reply #114 - Feb 14^th, 2007 at 5:32pm

Just come across this petition to the PM: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/cheapercalls/

Quote:

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to compel all companies and other organisations of any kind to publicise non-geographic telephone numbers (e.g. 01/02) in addition to any geographical numbers which they may already be publicising (e.g. 0845/0870).

The deadline is 31 January 2008 and there is currently 55 signatures. Note that the petition has mistaken geographical numbers for non-geographical numbers and vice versa.

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Re: SayNoTo0870.com E-Petition
Reply #115 - Feb 14^th, 2007 at 10:54pm

Dave wrote on Feb 14^th, 2007 at 5:32pm:

Just come across this petition to the PM: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/cheapercalls/

Clearly deserves to be allowed to die a death as its sentiments are the same as the other petition but it is more poorly worded.

By the way why didn't I get an update email in relation to your last post Dave?

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Re: SayNoTo0870.com E-Petition
Reply #116 - Feb 14^th, 2007 at 11:01pm

I see the main anti 0870 petition has now reached Position 13 on the list with 9013 signatures, having surprisingly gone back ahead of Scrap Speed Cameras by over 800 signatures.

Either its naturally popular with those against the road tolls (quite likely) or this anti 0870 Petition is being plugged on a few web forums or in a few chain emails.

What a shame we didn't get a petition going against these numbers that slammed the failure of Ofcom to come up with a sensible and logical solution that the public would readily understand.

Unfortunately once the road toll signature petition closes no other petitions are going to get anywhere near this number of signatures.

Anyhow it seems clear there is widespread opposition to these numbers given the level of support being picked up.

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Re: SayNoTo0870.com E-Petition
Reply #117 - Feb 14^th, 2007 at 11:15pm

NGMsGhost wrote on Feb 14^th, 2007 at 10:54pm:

By the way why didn't I get an update email in relation to your last post Dave?

I have no idea. Nowt to do with me!

NGMsGhost wrote on Feb 14^th, 2007 at 11:01pm:

Anyhow it seems clear there is widespread opposition to these numbers given the level of support being picked up.

I notice that you've signed it now.

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Re: SayNoTo0870.com E-Petition
Reply #118 - Feb 14^th, 2007 at 11:29pm

Dave wrote on Feb 14^th, 2007 at 11:15pm:

I notice that you've signed it now.

Yes I signed it some days ago and several thousand signatures before you finally did Dave. Wink

I have also been responsible for several hundred of the signature via links to the petition I have posted in hot threads on other web forums that I thought might be sympathetic to the cause.

When I realised it had unstoppable momentum I thought it was better than nothing at all. If Daniel hadn't stuck the link on this website though we could have started our own petition with Daniel's name on it slating Ofcom's ineptitude and incomptence in serving the best interests of the UK citizen consumer over this matter.

I see that Daniel predictably has still not signed it though. Shocked

Who does he work for in the daytime that makes him so secretive about his surname. MI5 perhaps. Undecided

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Keith Senior Member Offline Posts: 378 Surrey Gender:	Re: SayNoTo0870.com E-Petition Reply #119 - Feb 16^th, 2007 at 11:19am Topped the 10,000 signature mark and about to enter the top 10 petitions.
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