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From: ram@nebulus (Richard Meesters)
Newsgroups: alt.fax,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Junk Fax: more than urban legend.
Message-ID: <1989Aug16.180535.1990@nebulus>
Date: 16 Aug 89 18:05:35 GMT
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eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:


> johnl@esegue.UUCP (John Levine) writes:
>!In article <132@ssc.UUCP! tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook) writes:
>!!Junk Fax.  ...   Is this really a problem?  I think not.  ...
>!
>!It's real, all right.  The problem is not so much that the machine is tied
>!up so you can't send anything (although this apparently happened to the
>!governor of Connecticut when the incredibly stupid junk faxers were flooding
>!him with junk faxes urging him not to sign an anti-junk-fax bill.  He signed
>!it, of course.)
>!
>!The problem is really no different from that of junk phone calls in general,

Hey, you can hang up on Junk phone calls, and they don't waste any resource
other than your time.

>	don't Bah!  a law like one that you describe would be completely
>	reasonable, i think.  junk phone calls and junk fax are a pain in 
>	the hooter.  but the anti-junk-phone bills in massachusetts didn't
>	do a thing to stop the calls.  consistent federal and state laws
>	would be required.  not bloody likely!  


>	i pity the poor sap who sends me my first junk fax...
>	there are plenty of techniques for getting back at the 
>	junk phone callers -- i'm sure some enterprising netters can
>	come up with methods to defeat junk-fax-twerps.

The technique I always figured would work best (If the junk fax included
a fax number) was to photocopy several black pages (leave the photocopier
open) then fax these back to the junk faxer.  If he doesn't catch this right
away, it will do wonders to the thermal printhead used in fax machines.
This may sound a bit extreme, but I hate having time and thermal paper wasted
by these idiots.

Regards,

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