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FCC Opens Flood Gates for Junk Faxes
EmagGeek writes "The FCC implemented a Report and Order on Reconsideration (R&O on Recon) that uses some of the same exemptions for junk faxes that currently exist for the Do Not Call list. The new rules specify that junk faxers can claim an Existing Business Relationship (EBR) to justify flooding you with junk faxes. Under the new rules, a junk faxer could visit your website and call that an existing business relationship. The new rules also prevent junk-fax trapping, in which someone posts their fax number on the internet, waits for junk faxes, then files suit against the faxers under the TCPA. With all of the government-sponsored selling out of The People that has been going on in the past, say, 6 or so years, one has to wonder when or even if it is going to stop."
Can we put the FCC's FAX number on the junk fax list?
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Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Sure you can, get all of the government fax numbers you can find and send em to junk faxers along with links to apporpriate .gov websites so the faxers can create that all important relationship. You would then expect that the FCC will reconsider the regulations.
Or, just as likely, you'll find yourself going to pound-me-in-the-ass "terrorist" prison.
what the catalyst was that finally got the people to act?
The president getting a BJ.
In the not-so-distant future, you'll get up, in the morning... your alarm will ring out a company jingle, and remind you that you were 5 min late to work, yesterday -- if this keeps up, it'll be reflected in your performance review. You'll get out of bed, and your coffee pot will let you know that the local supermarket is having a sale on a new brand of coffee filters that you would, probably, like - considering your habits. Your stool['night-soil'] will be analyzed by your commode, and you will be informed that: 1) Your doctor's office would like to schedule an appointment to check on your hemorrhoids, 2) There's a sale on hemorrhoid cream, at the corner chemist's, and 3) Your health insurance premium just went up by $0.25/month, due to your increased risk of developing colon cancer. With this joyful news, you step into the shower, where you will be able to learn about a new sign-up special at the local health-club, to assist you in dropping those extra 2.3 kilos that you picked up, over the holiday. Looking in the mirror, you will be able to catch an ad for a new hair-color which will help you to look younger, by hiding that gray (see it, there -- left temple, *three* new white hairs!)...
&c., &c., ad infinitum, ad nauseaum
Call AND fax your congressman and senators. Ask to speak to the staffer who deals with either telecommunications or consumer affairs issues. Tell them, nicely, that you have a problem with these regs, and they need to step up. Hard as it is to believe, for the most part, these people really try to listen to their constituents.
House web site: http://www.house.gov/
Senate web site: http://www.senate.gov/
Don't bother mailing, because letters sit in a warehouse for months waiting to get checked for anthrax.
Well, there is the fact that there's only 209 more days until election day . . .
I'm not tense. I'm just terribly, terribly, alert.
> I hate the guy as much as anybody but get fucking real.
> They get all the blame for this and no credit at all
Then you don't hate the guy enough, I'm afraid. If you hate someone--truly hate them--you don't look for reasons to give them any credit at all. And you'd most definitely listen to any potential explanation for why he doesn't deserve any, no matter how tenuous.