John,
Thank you for the opportunity to sign your petition to keep caves open. I am number 5 on the list. Looks like a long way to go to meet the goal of 25,000
signatures. That is over twice the number of members in the NSS. Good luck meeting the goal. I suggest you expand awareness of the petition by posting
it's existence on every conservation and/or caving website you know of. Of the 10,000 NSS members currently active, probably fewer than half of those
ever read Cave Chat. Maybe you can get your petition put on the front of the main NSS home page. Maybe David Grimes would be willing to help if he
really is interested in keeping caves open.
There are also other cave sites that would be appropriate for your petition such as Caving News (
http://cavingnews.com/) and TAG-NET (
http://hiddenworld.net/tag-net/) (
http://hiddenworld.net/tag-net/subscribe.php). I'm sure there are others. FACEBOOK may be the absolute
best way to acquire the necessary signatures as there are more people on FACEBOOK than probably any other online social network site. Literally
millions of users, many of who may want to sign your petition simply to keep their rights from disappearing due to groups like the CBD.