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   Medicine

   

   Cowardly Anonymous, May 23rd, 2002 @ 9:02am

   
   

   Junk faxes should be against the law. It cost the unwilling recipient money in the form of paper and toner. The financial loss alone should justify the law.
   
   Since the reversal makes completely legal to cost consumers time and money for the odd belief that corprate harrassment is a valid business model then I say turn the tables on the sender.
   
   Get a piece of paper that says in big bold letters that you do not want to recieve faxes from this company ever again and tape it to the top of the senders junk fax and fax the sender. Once the paper starts to go through tape the top of you letter to the bottom of their junk fax. Now you have a junk fax "cylinder" that will continue to send the sender your message until they run out of paper, toner or memory. I'm sure they'll better appreciate your stance once you waste their resources and interfere with their business. After all... they didn't buy their fax machine in order to receive junk faxes.

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   Re: Medicine

   

   littlew0lf, May 23rd, 2002 @ 12:21pm

   
   

   Except when said company turns around and charges you with harrassment. Besides, most of the junk fax systems I've dealt with have had no "receive mode" for just that purpose. However, since most of the "junk fax" calls I receive are to my voice line, which has Caller-ID and Anonymous Call Rejection (which they somehow manage to get by,) I've resorted to occasionally hooking up a fax machine to get the phone number from the mailer, then calling their number with my fax machine, so they can get a dose of their own medicine.
   
   I actually had one of these folks call me back voice and suggest that I never do that again, threatening me with a harrassment suit. When I told them that they were doing the same to me, I was assured that my number was listed as a fax line and they were only calling known fax lines, (according to the phone company, the phone number I have is relatively new and has never been listed as a fax line.) I told them to take my phone number off of their list, which apparently they have complied with. Now if only I had enough money to sue them for harrassment...of course, junk faxes are illegal in all 50 states, but taking them to small claims court is difficult for me since I really don't have the time to deal with them.

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   If it is a 1st Ammendment right

   

   Lee, May 23rd, 2002 @ 8:51pm

   
   

   If it is a 1st Ammendment right to send junk fax, and spam, then it is a 1st Ammendment right to create anti junk fax and antispam tools.
   
   

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   Stupid Americans

   

   xdroop, May 24th, 2002 @ 5:03am

   
   

   Once again, Americans confuse the right to speak freely with the right to an audience. Just because someone has the right to speak freely in no way obligates anyone under any circumstances to listen to that speech.

   This is the first time I've seen a court take that stance, though. There must be something else going on.

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