On Thursday 27 September 2007 14:38, James Knott wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > Jan Engelhardt wrote: > >> On Sep 27 2007 10:36, James Knott wrote: > >>>> The Thursday 2007-09-27 at 07:19 -0400, James Knott wrote: > >>>> > >>>> I know of many businesses here that do not have email, but they do > >>>> have a fax. And it costs me nothing, anyway. > >> > >> Well every company that still has a typical printout fax should think > >> again. Believe it or not, fax spam does exist, and it just eats your > >> ink. > > > > At least in Texas there is a unsolicited fax protection law that allows > > for the recovery of ink at the rate of $100/per unsolicited fax........ > > I guess they assume everyone buys their ink from Epson. ;-)
The outfit I worked with had a _lot_ of FAX machines, and a _lot_ of spam, and we had HP machines. For once, I don't think the spammers are in cahoots with the "ink" companies. I'm really surprised that the FCC hasn't taken action against this, but maybe when Hilary is elected, they will. --doug > > > -- > Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- Blessed are the peacemakers ... for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A.M. Greeley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
