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From: James Deibele <jamesd@techbook.com>
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Subject: Re: Censure Roseanne Barr by Fax
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In article <10481@accuvax.nwu.edu> 0004133373@mcimail.com (Donald E.
Kimberlin) writes:

>Mc Grover has offered free use of his fax machine at (800)
>468-0344 (overseas callers can dial +1 813 733 0344) to receive and
>collect fax messages that he will forward to the sponsors of Barr's TV
>program to show how much public indignation Barr has caused.

And next month, when his phone bill arrives, Mc Grover will turn
around and sell all those phone numbers to someone compiling a
directory of fax numbers.  Or he'll publish it himself.  He'll have
your fax number, your name, and probably other information too (the
handiest pieces of paper probably being company stationery).


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[Moderator's Note: You are being cynical. He would not have to wait
until next month 'when the phone bill comes'. Most incoming fax
messages contain (a) a cover sheet saying who is writing, with their
voice and/or fax numbers, and (b) the name and fax number of the
sender printed on the top or bottom line of each page of paper, sent
automatically by the sending machine. And if a fax directory which
gives all the above information can be purchased for $19.95 from one
of several directory publishers, why should he tie up his fax machine
and waste all his paper to get the same information? Try not to have
ugly thoughts about motives every time someone starts a grass roots
campaign of some sort, regardless of how ill-advised you may consider
the movement.  The same motives you attribute to McGrover could be
applied to (for example) any organized effort to send telegrams,
mailgrams or fax messages to members of Congress, etc.  PAT]