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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!ryelect!sizone!spooge
- From: spooge@sizone.UUCP (Cyberpolka On Da Jeep)
- Newsgroups: ont.general
- Subject: Re: Junk FAX
- Message-ID: <5kBBuB6w165w@sizone.UUCP>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 22:30:15 EST
- References: <Digger.0osm@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca>
- Organization: Sonic Interzone, Atonal Hoodlum Subversion, TO Ont. 416-276-0552
- Lines: 31
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- Digger@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Digger) writes:
-
- > This happened to me (not from the same people though) and what I did was
- > this. Luckilly, I knew the fax number of the sender. I wrote on two legal
- > sized sheets of paper things to the effect of "Stop sending faxes to
- > XXX-XXXX." I then taped the two pages end to end, and fed one end into the
- > fax machine. I dialed up the sender and sent the fax. Before it was
- > finished, I taped the end coming out of the fax to the end about to go in,
- > and voila! Instant mega-fax! Since it's a loop, it'll keep sending until
- > you stop it. I let it go for 15 or 20 minutes each call. It wasted so
- > much paper on their end, they took my number off the list within three
- > calls.
- >
- > I felt much better after that. :-)
-
- Of course, this is much easier when you have a fax board, an using
- WinFax or the like.
-
- "printint file <coredump> on printer fax:0, 897812 bytes."
-
- Any suggestions as to what extra kinds of pages to attach? Possibly
- photocopies of the criminal code regarding telecommunications
- solicitation?
-
- /kc
-
- Ken Chasse - Sonic Interzone, Toronto Ont. * Inet: sizone!spooge@ee.ryerson.ca
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- "It's stupid, it's idiotic, it's inane, it isn't art, it's dumb, it's a ripoff
- of American pop culture, and we live in a sad society that tolrates it."
- - NIMROD
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