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What Can You Do to Stop Junk Faxes?

Posted by Cliff on from the as-if-spam-and-telemarketers-weren't-bad-enough dept.

olddoc asks: "I am having a growing problem with junk faxes. Unlike email, it costs me money when I get a fax so junk faxes really tick me off. A while ago, I gave my number to a removal number and now I am getting more junk faxes than ever." What options are there for dealing with this? If you've also had this problem, what did you do and how effective was it in stopping unwanted faxes?

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  1. Solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fax them back with a bunch of black paper taped into a loop.

    1. Re:Solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Or send them an endless Tub Girl loop...

  2. Artillery by Nimey · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've always favored artillery barrages. Gets the point across nicely.

    It's polite to use small guns (37mm to 75mm) as a first warning, then if they persist bring in the 155mm guns.

    The biggest troublemakers are no match to an Iowa-class 16" rifle.

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    Hail Eris, full of mischief...

    E pluribus sanguinem
    1. Re:Artillery by Arthur+B. · · Score: 2, Funny

      If everything fails they'll probably listen to Reason.

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      \u262D = \u5350
    2. Re:Artillery by theCoder · · Score: 2, Funny

      I think the OP was referring to Reason, the rail gun used in "Snow Crash". Everybody eventually listens to Reason.

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      "Save the whales, feed the hungry, free the mallocs" -- author unknown
  3. I usually just sink the offending Junk by Timesprout · · Score: 1, Funny

    I keep a fleet of submarines specially for this purpose.

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    Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
    What truth?
    There is no dupe
  4. Uhhhhh..... by balance+one · · Score: 1, Funny

    What's a FAX?

  5. No, that's "polite request" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Reason is its big brother.