Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!lll-winken!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: California Junk Fax Bill Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 89 17:55:18 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 34 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 428, message 5 of 10 In article , dwtamkin@chinet.chi.il. us (David W. Tamkin) writes: > Mark A. Holtz wrote in volume 9, issue 419: > | However, the governor of California has stated that he would not > | sign said bill. > | > | He is bound to change his mind. > | > | Several radio stations have gotten a hold of the Governor's fax > | number. And, they have given it out, telling people to keep the fax > | machine busy with junk fax. And, sure enough, it has been busy. If this isn't stacking the deck, I don't know what is. For about a month there was a thread running in alt.fax with people invited to share their junk fax stories. In all that time, nothing more serious than a couple of solicitations a month came to light. Indeed, no one could relate to anything near the "problem" that has been reported in the press and has obviouly paniced some state legislators into passing silly and needless legislation. I wrote to KGO in San Francisco, one of the stations passing out the governor's fax number, and told them that inviting the public to jam his fax machine was an inappropriate use of the public airwaves. If the governor vetoed the bill, then obviously up to this point he has not had any trouble with junk fax. This appears to be one of those comp.horror.stories without any real basis. I know of many fax machines in the area and a survey of all their owners reveals *NO* problem with junk fax. Sorry, this is a cause that won't fly. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !