Before there was the internet, there was the spoken word, and then its offspring, the written word, which brought forth letters and petitions.

We rarely come across people accosting us outside shopping malls these days, clipboard or endless scrolled paper in hand, not letting us go about our business without hearing them out and getting our name on their petition for one worthy cause or another. It’s all on the ‘net these days. Just click and you’re member of a party, and the subject of endless appeals for cash.