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From: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Junk Fax: more than urban legend.
Message-ID: <480@v7fs1.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 89 20:26:31 GMT
References: <4267@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Reply-To: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt)
Organization: Video7, Cupertino, CA
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I think that, rather than cluttering up the legal system with yet
another law, the best course of action is to let nature take 
its course.  As someone else said, there are lots of ways to
take vengeance against junk fax messages:  After all, if they're
trying to get your business, they've got to have their phone
number on the fax, or even (Oh, Joy!) their fax number.

A suggestion that appeared on the net some time ago was to take
their junk fax, scrawl "DON'T CLUTTER MY FAX MACHINE WITH THIS
GARBAGE!" across it, Xerox it a few times, tape the copies end-to-end
in a loop, and fax it back to 'em.

Or, call their salescritter and raise hell.  Emphasize that
you wouldn't touch their product if it was the only one
available.  Run it up the chain of command of the company.

I'm sure the fertile imaginations of the net can think up
much more (and much worse.)
-- 
Mike Van Pelt                                When guns are outlawed,
Headland Technology/Video 7                  only Carl Rowan will have guns.
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