[plug] [OT] junk faxes

[Leon Brooks]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 08:50, Peter Wright wrote:
>> Personally, I wish the courts and the politicians (a curse on all of
>> them) stay out of this, and let technological solutions sort out the
>> mess.

> As with junk faxes back in the *thinks* eighties? :-)

On this hangs a tale...

A small drafting co in west perth which i did work for in the early '80s 
started getting regular junk faxes from a marketing company. He scrubbed the 
ID from his own machine, printed up a couple of pages saying 'STOP WASTING MY 
PAPER' and `NO MORE JUNK FAXES', and at 8PM one night dialled their number, 
fed the pages to his fax, taped the ends together, and went home. Early next 
morning he arrived to the cheerful sound of a repeated busy signal, so he 
cancelled the fax.

Later that morning, one of his clients - who happened to share an office 
building with the fax-spammer - rang him and told him about the hilarious 
sight of a bank of eight empty high-capacity fax machines and an office piled 
waist-high with scrolls and curls of used fax paper.

I think a fingerprintless star-picket through the telephone mains and a stern 
unsigned note might be more appropriate to these guys.

Cheers; Leon