Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!bionet!apple!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp 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 Lines: 22 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. ...ames!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp