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Date: Fri, 6 May 94 12:38:30 PDT From: dat@ebt.com (David Taffs) To: cypherpunks@toad.com Subject: legal rqmt for FAX return phone # Content-Length: 539 Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Precedence: bulk

I thought I heard somewhere that it was illegal to send anonymous faxes -- namely, that there was some regulation that you had to program your FAX machine with your phone number so it would get sent automagically whenever you faxed anything. Essentially it was ILLEGAL to fax without providing the recipient with a mechanism to find out where it came from. Of course, I suspect enforcement is lax, but still... :-) :-(

Can someone please confirm this, or help with a reference? Private e-mail is fine...

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dat@ebt.com (David Taffs)

I was _just_ speaking with a few technicians at various FAX management software vendors. A couple of them were saying that identifying the return telephone number on incomings FAXes is highly problematic. There are no established standards regarding the format or presentation of the return FAX number information. Also, some older FAX machines may or may not have the feature at all. I wonder, however, because it seems to me that whenever I've received FAXes in the past (not exactly commonplace) they have always had the return FAX number somewhere at the top of the page. -- randy@pilot.com (home address) NeXTMAIL randy@nacm.com (work address) Welcome! *Out* and _proud_ of it! (public key on keyservers) ________________________________________________________________________ "We are here! We are here! We are here!" -- Horton and the Who ________________________________________________________________________ GCS(GAT): d--(---/-d+) p-@ c+++@ l u++@ e* m+/++ s/+ n+(---) h(--) f* g+ w++/+++ t++ r(-) y+(*)