Thanks for the link. Myself and “Scrambled” my friendly, sometimes co-collaborator, have both signed up. I can forsee 3 key problems, which we all need to overcome.

1) Talking about it between ourselves in the web dev community and not taking to the public at large.
2) Apathy. What difference will it make, no-one listens
3) The whole e-petition thing not being understood / appreciated / accessible by the public.

For my last point check out the http://petitions.pm.gov.uk web site and see the generally pathetic response to some very big issues. (I actaully also signed up against ID cards whilst there)

It seems to me that the general public who are no longer welcome up downing street with a wheelbarrow containing a petition with hundreds of thousands of signatures (unless of course invited first by No. 10 press office / PR machine), are being fobbed off with a little published service, which cuts off a substantial number of possible signatories (i.e. the millions of people without email addresses)

We should all mail this out to every body in our on-line adderess book. Contact our former / present colleagues / universities and get staff who may me interested to circulate (I did that this morning); everything possible to get it at least to the top of the pile. Sad to say that so far it is going nowhere. That is a great injustice as if this was presented to sufficient people and the case was explained in clear and simple terms, the number of signatories could be overwhelming