> Gee, let's piss off people and make sure it spreads so our rep is ruined.
>
> Hey, seriously, why doesn't everyone pissed off about this complain on
> comp.dcom.servers and comp.dcom.isdn - that'll hurt their rep more than
> preaching to the choir here.
I've already posted their spam with my standard "drop dead letter" to
news.admin.net-abuse.misc.
> I seem to recall there being a federal law against unsolicited fax
> transmissions... Anyone recall the number?
There is, it's in Title 47.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html
The law calls for a civil penalty of $500 per transmission. Some people
feel that the law's definition of "telephone facsimile machine" is broad
enough to cover a printer-equipped computer, thus covering junk e-mail
under the same statute. Standard disclaimer, IANAL, blah blah...
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