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   It's...

   

   Joe Schmoe, Aug 7th, 2002 @ 2:04pm

   
   

   It's still never been made completely clear to me why we can't just make anti-junk fax laws cover spam as well.
   
   It's much easier to trace and prove where a fax was sent from. An email, sent from a fictitious address, relayed thru several open servers, etc., etc, is, well, you get the picture...

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   Do you print out your SPAM mail?

   

   Oliver Wendell Jones, Aug 7th, 2002 @ 2:44pm

   
   

   The reason that Fax SPAM is illegal is the actual physical cost that is tied to receiving a fax. You need paper and toner (or ink) to receive a fax, so every fax you receive actually costs you money as well as time.
   Receiving a SPAM e-mail only costs you time, and even though most people will tell you that time = money, there isn't a convenient way to prove it.
   If you had some bizarre e-mail appliance that would receive all your e-mail and print them out before you could read them, then you might be able to get Congress to consider making the same law apply...

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   level_ed, Aug 7th, 2002 @ 3:09pm

   
   

   For some reason this makes me smile. Perhaps it's because I receive several fax spams daily asking me if I need to replace my toner. Go get'em FCC.

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   Fax.com are long-time scumbags

   

   Uncle StoatWarbler, Aug 8th, 2002 @ 3:56am

   
   

   
   This is the second FCC judgement against them, they refuse to pay and the FCC doesn't have that many teeth to enforce it.
   
   they're also one fo the 2 companies (american blastfax is the other) who suceeded in getting the TCPA declared unconstiutuional.
   
   They have court cases going in California which are attempting to invalidate the TCPA under state law.
   
   _AND_ They're email junkmailers
   
   _AND_ They're prerecorded message phone spammers
   
   _AND_ the local sherrif office in California _REFUSES_ to serve summons on them. They treat each request as being party to ongoing organised harrassment of fax.com
   
   See junkfaxes.org and google on fax.com. It's ugly.
   
   

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   Re: Do you print out your SPAM mail?

   

   alc, Jun 10th, 2005 @ 7:30am

   
   

   Actually, that's not true -- SPAM costs a lot of money in network administration and hardware (to handle the additional email) costs.
   
   More info:
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21657-2004Jun7.html
   and
   http://www.washingtonpost. com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17754-2003Mar12

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   Unsolicited Fax harassment

   

   Shirley R. Rose, Mar 20th, 2006 @ 10:22am

   
   

   A company called "Market Watch sends me 6 or 7 real junk fax
   every month. The "FAX REMOVAL" number is erroneous:
   1-800-410-1628.
   
   I went onto their website (www.alldeepblue.com) the second
   site is unreadable.
   
   This is costing me time, money, and high bloodpressure. I am
   80 years old and the pressure of the cost in time and funds, not
   to count the time it takes to go to Office Depot for new Fax
   machines supplies....
   
   How might I get them to STOP. This is being done to me
   out of spite.
   
   Shirley R. Rose
   [email protected]

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