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Forbes Sympathizes with Poor, Abused Fax.com
An anonymous reader writes "Forbes invites sympathy for Fax.com and other junk faxers who are apparently being victimized by 'a small army of plaintiffs, attorneys and self-appointed activists', and Forbes particularly takes aim at 'the high-tech ambulance chasers' whose offenses include providing 'step-by-step instructions on Internet sites, printable legal forms and names of attorneys who specialize in the trade' to individuals who've received illegal junk faxes and want to do something about it. Because of these nasties Fax.com is 'all but out of business' and Forbes seems to be worried that email spammers might share the same fate. Help, I think I've fallen into a parallel universe."
Forbes Sympathizes with Poor
I totally misread *that* title.
"I only speak the truth"
Karma: null(Mostly affected by an unassigned variable)
Yeah I'd say those are the most likely scenarios...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Perhaps Kevin should get John to write a simpering, knee-jerk monologue about how the athletic lawyers are oppressing the junk-faxers because they are "different".
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Why bother? The current line on terrorism seems to be working just fine for the right wing nuts so far.
Actually, it seems like wing nuts are not the correct item for this applaction. Traditional hex nuts can handle more torque and would therefore hold everything together better through the rocky legal battles ahead...
Or, in other words, did you miss a hyphen there? It's ASCII 45, if you can't track it down on your keyboard.
Just because I doubt myself does not mean I find your position compelling.
what, am I supposed to apply at the bureau of activism before I can be a REAL activist??
teeker
If only we could litigate less and innovate more ;-).
Tell you what - come up with an innovative system-wide solution to spam, or I'll sue you. Then you can lead by example.
Just because I doubt myself does not mean I find your position compelling.
Hope somebody saved a copy of the Goatse.cx man to fax over....
print("<a href="abuse@forbes.com">" . md5(microtime()) ."@forbes.com</a><br>\n");
My god - there's so much wrong with this piece of code that I don't even want to start.
Don't you guys know what happens without advertizing?
Nothing.
That's right. If it weren't for advertizing nothing would ever get done. Fax.com is providing a valuable service to humanity.
mbbac
Looks like Attorney Bites Lawyer to me. What irony !
To see a world in a grain of sand, and then to step back and see the beach where the sand lies
This is the internet. You are allowed to say "ass."
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
I take the original fax and tape it to a few blank sheets of paper. On the blank sheets I write something like "remove me from your list". Anyways, insert the first page, hit paper feed and tape it to the last page so it forms a loop. Dial the offending number and let it run all night. Kills their ink, paper and phone line all in one. It may not be effective but it makes me feel better.
Stranded.org
applaction? application, perhaps?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Don't you mean 65,535 faxes?
:)
Sorry, couldn't resist
I cannot believe i am advocating for positive moderation of a link to the goatse guy....
Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.
---Bellamy Brooks
Hammer of Truth
With that new worm going around they may not get your email, so why don't you fax them?
R: That voice. Where have I heard that voice before? B: In about 365 other episodes. But I don't know who it is either.
Just tried to add Fax.com's Fax number of their list... wonder what will happen.
For educational purposes only.
:o)
And educate we will
Sigged!
Why do people read Forbes?
It's like Seventeen for executives. Seventeen does pointless lists of the cutest boys and best dressed actresses, Forbes does pointless lists of the richest boys and totally awesomest briefcases.
I know it sounds like I'm joking, but it's only funny because it's true.
Ashcroft's priorities:
1> Supressing threats to Republican hegemony
2> Raising money
3> Distracting Fatherland Security from Saudis in favor of Liberals
4> Could you repeat the question?
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make install -not war
Forbes doesn't realize how much resources are wasted with junk faxes. Maybe they haven't experienced on their own fax machines (one of which happens to be at 212-206-5118).
[One of my first programming tasks so long ago was to write a routine to randomly print one of 5 phrases. I went kindof off the wall, checked out a few library books on famous quotes and proverbs, and selected a few dozen for my submission. Trying to be cute, I guess, I included the quote of above. When t the assignment came back, that quote was circled.]
Who else appoints an activist? Queen Elizabeth? "I appoint thee an anti-fax activist" Stupid.