Xref: utzoo alt.fax:305 comp.dcom.modems:4284 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!mailrus!husc6!spdcc!eli From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) Newsgroups: alt.fax,comp.dcom.modems Subject: Junk Fax: more than urban legend. Message-ID: <4267@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> Date: 16 Aug 89 04:09:31 GMT Reply-To: eli@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) Lines: 41 Organization: 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, !just that you have a pile of paper to remind you of it. I'd define junk !calls as making more than four identical or substantially similar calls in a !single day to callees who have not requested it, and outlaw that. This would !not accidentally also cover mechanical and human voice junk phone calls. Bah. 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 suppose that when fax machines are commonly attached to computers and !people preview their faxes on the screen before looking at them, it'll be !less of a big deal to ignore them, but they're still a pain in the neck. yeah. as someone who has worked extensively with both voice processing and fax processing PC machines -- it always ticks me off to see (hear) people using these technologies to make unsolicited and ridiculous phone calls... 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. -- ... Steve Elias (eli@spdcc.com);6172399406;6178906844;6178591389; {} /* */