Return of the Junk Fax

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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 made
demands 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

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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






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