[Hidden-tech] Junk Faxes

[Duane Dale]

Rikk, Alan, et al:  What's been worse than junk faxes for me is attempted
junk faxes coming into voice lines - both my home office # and my home
number, and at all sorts of odd times.  I know they're junk faxes because
I've sometimes connected my fax machine to those lines to receive the fax -
and then I've called the "do not send" number at the bottom and maybe gotten
some temporary relief. But I've wondered whether connecting a fax machine
that will answer a fax coming into a voice line only encourages them to send
more.

 

I've started to wonder whether a national "do not fax" registry, similar to
the "do not call" registry, would be part of a solution.  And I wish it
would automatically have all lines that are believed (by the phone
companies?) to be voice lines, not fax lines -- unless their owners took
them OFF the "do not fax" registry.

 

Meanwhile, and I think based on a suggestion in a Hidden Tech thread, I've
been using Packetel's pFax service (www.packetel.com
<http://www.packetel.com/> , $4/month), which gives me a virtual fax number
(mine's a "Connecticut" 203 #) and converts faxes to emails. I don't think
I've gotten any junk faxes on that number, but if I did, at least I wouldn't
be wasting paper & ink on them.

 

-- Duane

 

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