On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 10:16:09AM -0400, David Lesher wrote: > > Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I know this is somewhat off topic, but I am hoping someone here has previously > > dealt with this problem and has an answer. > > > > For some reason, the access telephone number for our "internal use only" dial-up > > modem pool -- which also happens to connect to our fax server -- has gotten on > > several fax spammers telephone list as being a fax telephone number. We have > > captured several dozen faxes sent through that number over the past few days, and > > they all have 'enter your number here to delete' toll free numbers on them and we > > would like to find out the telco that owns those blocks of 800# so we can complain.
'For some reason' ... junkfaxers 'war dial' looking for fax tones. That is how one of my totally unlisted and never distributed fax number got picked up. Since I use that number only for outgoing paper faxes, the fix was easy. I turned off auto-answer. -- -=[L]=- PS: Sorry for sending this to you, 'reply' in this case did not get me the list.
