Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: tad@ssc.UUCP (Tad Cook) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: California Junk Fax Bill Message-ID: Date: 5 Oct 89 00:32:41 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: very little Lines: 28 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 429, message 7 of 12 I have been wondering about junk fax....I see a lot of articles written about it, but I am wondering if it is this year's "computer virus" scare story in the media? After talking to a number of fax users, I am convinced that this may be an "urban legend". The articles all tell how the junk faxer can control your machine, and make it so you can't send important information. One article quoted a guy who claimed that he stood there helpless while the machine churned out junk fax, when he needed to send an important document. Somehow it never occured to him or the writed xxxx writer of the article to just unplug the RJ11 for a few seconds or hit the STOP button so that he could send his fax. The only junk fax we have received in the past few years was from that Mr. Fax outfit selling fax paper. They send one ad once in a great while, and one time after getting maybe two a year from them, we took advantage of their offer to have us taken off their list. We receive lots of transmissions from our customers, but no more junk fax. I asked about this on the alt.fax group, and still could find no one who really had a first person horror stories. All I could get was a lot of complaining about "they are using MY paper". Anyone here have any FIRST PERSON verifiable accounts (not friend of a friend urban legend stuff) of junk fax horror stories? Tad Cook tad@ssc.UUCP MCI Mail: 3288544