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From: tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook)
Newsgroups: alt.fax,comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Junk Fax: more than urban legend.
Summary: responding to junk fax
Message-ID: <151@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 89 00:25:11 GMT
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Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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I have seen several postings about how to get back at junk faxers.
I suspect that these wont work, unless the person you are aiming all
those black pages at is really using a fax machine.

I suspect that services like Mr. Fax use one of these fax nodes where
you can load in an image and have it simultaneously autodial through
many telephone lines to a bunch of machines at once.  In this case,
there is no fax machine to receive the 'get-even' image on.

Last year I got an ad sheet (via US Mail, not junk fax  :>  ) from a
firm selling a service where you could call there main computer and
upload an image file along with a list of phone numbers.  These are
then sent as data out to various nodes around the country that dial up
the machines closest to them, sorted by area code.  (oops...shoulda
said 'their' in line 2 of this paragraph)

Still haven't hear from anyone who has received a ton of junk fax...
only people pissed off about the IDEA of it.

Tad Cook
tad@ssc.UUCP