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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 14:12:29 GMT
- From: gary.w.sanders@att.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: Texans Entitled to <=$1500 Damages For Computerized Calls!
- Message-ID: <telecom12.918.9@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 918, Message 9 of 9
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- In article <telecom12.914.5@eecs.nwu.edu> Gregg (G.) Woodcock
- <woodcock@bnr.ca> writes:
-
- > Under a new law that just passed in Texas, consumers are allowed to
- > collect up to $1500 in fines agains any company who initaites a phone
- > call with a non-human and can be identified (and who does not have
-
- Does it specifically say 'company', or anyone who dials your number
- with a non-human attendant? Get rich in Texas, publish your phone
- number a some super-duper BBS then wait for the calls to come in ...
- cha-ching!
-
- I also wonder what "non-human" means ... can I have a computer call
- and as long as a human is monitoring the call this is legal or does a
- human need to be at the from end of the call?
-
-
- Gary W. Sanders (N8EMR) gary.w.sanders@att.com
- AT&T Bell Labs 614-860-5965
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: Publishing your number in a BBS listing then
- 'waiting for the calls to come in' would not benefit you anything
- other than a lot of grief. The intent is there must be *no basis* for
- the calls; your number appearing in such a list would provide the
- basis for such calls to be made. I think the intent also is to exclude
- from punishment those 'accidental or occassional calls' which a
- mis-programmed fax machine or computer modem might cause. The intent
- of the legislation is to prevent the deliberate automated-dialing of
- calls to people who do not want them. I suppose a BBS operator who
- refused to correct his listings or his uucp software after being
- notified of the problem could be punished ... but who in the world
- would refuse to make such corrections? If someone as a sick joke
- published your number in a BBS list, your recourse would be against
- the submitter and possibly the editor/publisher of the list; but not
- against the caller, and not under the law being discussed. PAT]
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