Xref: utzoo news.admin:5497 comp.org.ieee:58 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!PEDEV!high From: high@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Ralph Hightower) Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.org.ieee Subject: Re: Advertising vs the net Message-ID: <2468@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> Date: 7 Apr 89 21:28:02 GMT References: <1586@ucsd.EDU> Reply-To: high@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Ralph Hightower) Distribution: usa Organization: NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC Lines: 20 In article <1586@ucsd.EDU> brian@ucsd.EDU (Brian Kantor) writes: >California Assembly Bill AB576 (not yet passed into law) states >that a person who uses a machine that electronically transmits >messages or facsimilies of documents through connection with a >telephone network to transmit unsolicited advertising material for >the sale of any realty, goods, or services is guilty of a misdemeanor. >Apparently this is an attempt to control FAX junkmail. I like their plan, although I don't have a fax, the telephone is "a machine that electronically transmits messages . . . through the telephone network to transmit unsolicited advertising material". That's a great way and sneaky to ban telephone solicitations. -- Ralph.Hightower@Columbia.NCR.COM NCR Corp., Engineering & Manufacturing - Columbia, SC Home of THE USC! South Carolina had a University 49 years before California was a state.