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Return of the Junk Fax
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 19:13:18 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Bob Rosenberg <bob () bobrosenberg phoenix az us> Date: October 4, 2005 7:01:48 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: monty () roscom com Subject: RE: Return of the Junk Fax Dave Perhaps for IP.While not strictly on thread, this anecdote does warm the cockles of my heart.
This reminded me that, on occasion, there are methods of revenge. One is of a
faxing experience a business owner friend of mine once had.He was a party to some litigation. The opposing counsel made demand for copies of various documents with a requirement for delivery within a short time frame. Since my friend's office was many miles across a major metropolitan area from the attorney's office, he requested a resonable delay in order to produce and
then deliver the copies.It was not a friendly litigation [is that phrase oxymoronic?]. The opposing
lawyer refused the request for delay.My friend, running his small business, not being able to spend that much time away from his business, and not being willing to pay additional money to a delivery service, began faxing a gazillion [technical term] pages of documents to the lawyer in question. Suddenly, the fax machine stopped sending, and the phone rang. The lawyer's staff said that my friend was clogging up their fax machine, so they turned it off. They demanded that he deliver the entire
package of document copies by hand.My friend explained to the lawyer's staff that he had previously requested a reasonable amount of time to produce the copies: Their employer had refused that request: and, if they refused to accept delivery timely over their fax
machine, he would go into Court and explain the the Judge that they madedemands on him and then refused to allow him to comply with their demands.
They turned the fax machine back on, and he continued feeding reams of paper to
it. Eventually, my friend won the case.As for me, I quit using a fax machine years ago -- for all the obvious reasons.
Email, PDF, etc. work fine for me. Cordially, Bob Rosenberg P.O. Box 33023 Phoenix, AZ 85067-3023 LandLine: (602)274-3012 Mobile: (602)206-2856 bob () bobrosenberg phoenix az us **********************************************The responsibility of ministers for the public safety is absolute, and requires no mandate. It is in fact the prime object for which governments come into
existence. -- Winston Churchill ********************************************** Begin forwarded message: From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com> Date: October 3, 2005 2:43:24 AM EDT To: undisclosed-recipient:; Subject: Return of the Junk Fax Return of the Junk Fax By DAN MITCHELL October 1, 2005 IN the hierarchy of annoying advertisers, the porn spammers and the pump-and-dump stock promoters dwell at the bottom. Not far above them are junk faxers, who spew unsolicited advertisements to your fax machine, using your phone line, your ink and your paper in the process. Most junk faxes have been illegal since 1991. Since then, a federal law and Federal Communications Commission regulations have kept most machines free of unsolicited ads. But that may be changing. Why? "Because Congress just pumped new life into the junk fax industry," according to the Electronic Privacy Information Center (epic.org), which issued a communication on the subject this week. This summer, Congress passed and President Bush signed the Junk Fax Prevention Act. The "Orwellian-named" law removes one of the few protections against fax abuse, writes Chris Jay Hoofnagle, director for the center's West Coast office in San Francisco. In a loophole similar to one in the Can-Spam Act, which has done essentially nothing to stem the tide of unsolicited commercial e-mail, businesses are allowed to junk-fax anyone with whom they have an "established business relationship." ... http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/technology/01online.ready.html? ex=1285819200&en=2218b825b0cbd37b&ei=5090 ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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