> Hey everybody, > > I wanted to know what other may be doing to stem the flood of inbound > junk faxes? > > We currently using Asterisk/iaxmodem/Hylafax for fax services and get a > number of junk faxes daily. Most (If not all) of them have caller-id > blocked and have a TSI of "". I was hoping that, since we are using a > PRI, there would be other information coming across that I could use to > identify these spammers. Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Take a good look at the resources on the Internet for dealing with "junk fax". The TCPA of 1991 made them essentially illegal. The 2005 update broadened the scope a bit, but there are still a bunch of rules you need to follow or you're subject to penalties. You can also do a much better job of getting "caller-id" by subscribing to an 800# service that puts ANI information in the caller-id field before delivering it to you; this assumes you're willing to pick up the tab for incoming calls. See http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/unwantedfaxes.html for more info. The biggest reason we still have junk faxes is that so few people make use of the available remedies. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples. _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
