ARARAT CENTER’S COMMENTARY ON KEGHART.COM’S EDITORIAL
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Dear compatriots,
It came to our attention that Keghart.com had expressed concern to its
readers over signing the ARARAT Centre’s NO TO CAPITULATION online
petition campaign from the Go Petition site, where the petition is
currently placed. The reason for Keghart’s concern is that "based
on previous experience…," people signing the petition from the
commercial Go Petition site will have their e-mail addresses available
to spammers. (See Keghart’s editorial note.)
With due credit to Keghart’s theoretically legitimate concern, as
well as with full appreciation for the support Keghart expresses for
ARARAT’s campaign in its message, we take this opportunity to kindly
offer a piece of advice to our most valued readers and supporters
who are interested in joining this nationally-important campaign,
but worry about possible e-spam from the Go Petition site:
1. Signing up for any page on any website is never completely
spam-proof.
Nevertheless, most of our audience might agree that the possibility
of receiving some (extra) spam should not hold us back from joining
this crucial campaign, especially that we all occasionally get spam
from different sources anyway.
2. You may create a new (temporary) e-mail address and use it to sign
the petition; it will take less than 5 minutes to cre ate one.
Now a word of explanation as to why we used the Go Petition site for
this campaign, instead of placing it on our own website, which is
fully capable of hosting it: Our motivation for doing so was simply
to avoid getting criticized for self-advertising efforts. We felt
that if we posted the petition on our website, we might be blamed for
seeking to increase its rating through such measure. Thus, we opted
to post it on a neutral site.
Finally, we would like to draw attention to Keghart’s puzzling comment
about the ARARAT Center, saying that "centres the like of Ararat
continue to display misplaced individuality". Such description
is misplaced, inaccurate and inappropriate, especially without
justification.
We believe that such an unprofessional comment could undermine the
reputation of any party that uses it.
Yours faithfully,
ARARAT Center for Strategic Research