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Fax: Technology That Refuses to Die Under Attack

Posted by timothy on from the shriek-of-the-banshees dept.

securitas writes "The BBC Magazine's Paul Rubens reports on the ever-growing popularity of the fax machine, despite the widespread availability of e-mail and digital document/photo scanners. Why is fax still so popular? Partly because it is a mature technology that has legal weight and because of the emergence of Internet and Web e-mail-to-fax and fax-to-e-mail gateways, not to mention the relative lack of spam faxes. But that is changing. The New York Times Technology's Lisa Napoli reports that Infoseek founder Steve Kirsch is waging a battle against purveyors of illegal junk faxes (IHT) like Fax.com, which Kirsch has sued for $2.2 trillion, detailed at junkfax.org. Also joining the fight are lawyer and Telephone Consumer Protection Act co-author Gerard Waldron - he won $2.25 million from Fax.com. Finally consumer advocate Robert Braver's junkfaxes.org has 36 lawsuits pending against the junk fax industry. More evidence that spammers are among the lowest forms of life on Earth."

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  1. I FOR ONE WELCOME OUR NEW FAX OVERLORDS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    subject line says it all

  2. FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post

  3. well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    At least she is honest

  4. A Note to Our Canadian Friends by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Please keep your filthy diseased animals north of the border where they belong. Thank you,

    1. Re:A Note to Our Canadian Friends by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Yeah, like there is nothing wrong with the US cattle soaked in steroids, amphetamines and antibiotics...

      Oh no, there's nothing wrong with the US cattle, the disease must have come from abroad. GWB said so.

    2. Re:A Note to Our Canadian Friends by tobechar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The last outbreak of Madcow desease prompted a thorough investigation, in where they found the tainted cattle to have come from the USA.

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    3. Re:A Note to Our Canadian Friends by router_ninja · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Yes well, at least they can spell correctly. Dumbass.

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  5. Lisa Napoli by LittleLebowskiUrbanA · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Definitely one of the most shaggable female tech reporters out there. Any other hot chick tech reporters?

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    This guy is way out there
  6. Things That Die by Edogger_in_da_ghetto · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was playing a video game the other day on my Xbox. I was playing Max Payne 2 and lots of stuff does die. So if you shoot it, it will die because you attacked it by shooting it. There you go problem solved!!! -_-