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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: 16 Nov 92 05:35:37 GMT
- From: ndallen@r-node.gts.org (Nigel Allen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Junk FAX
- Message-ID: <telecom12.857.10@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Echo Beach, Toronto
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 857, Message 10 of 11
- Lines: 43
-
- [Moderator's Note: The original message for this did not appear in the
- telecom newsgroup. PAT]
-
- In article <1992Nov9.133800.24913@analsyn.gts.org> anton@analsyn.
- gts.org (Anton J Aylward) writes:
-
- > If some promotion company uses an autodialer and tape message to
- > keep calling me, soliciting for support for tax reform, to think of
- > just one subject I have been harassed by, I can call Bell and
- > complain, and eventually get something done.
-
- > How about FAXes ?
-
- > I am getting faxes sent in the early hours to my home number from:
-
- > Mark Muchnick
- > World Computers Ltd
- > Seattle, WA
-
- > Not only is this information of no interest or relevance to me, but it
- > comes a couple of times a week between 4am and 6am.
-
- If a legitimate business is sending you unwanted faxes, the best way
- to get the faxes to stop is to ask the company to stop.
-
- This will work quite well if the company is spending the cost of a
- long-distance call to get the fax to you.
-
- On the other hand, one Toronto-based company that operates several 976
- numbers likes to send out faxes promoting those numbers. It seems to
- ignore requests to remove fax machines from the junk fax list.
-
- But in your case, a one-paragraph letter sent by fax should work quite
- nicely.
-
- The same thing applies for local travel agencies, computer dealers and
- office supply dealers, who don't generally want to annoy people
- unncessarily.
-
-
- Nigel Allen
-
-