Time For The FCC To Get Its Act Together On VoIP
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Congress Looking To Enable More Fax Spam

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Wed, Jun 16th 2004 9:38am — Mike Masnick
Just as Congress is congratulating themselves on stopping spam, they're now trying to make it easier to send spam faxes as well. The FCC has a new rule that will require written permission to receive a fax. Admittedly, there are problems with this rule, such as the inability to give verbal permission to receive a fax. If someone calls up over the phone and wants information faxed to them, that should be legal. However, the bill in Congress goes completely in the other direction and gives no time limit on how long a company has the right to fax someone. A perfectly reasonable compromise (suggested by opponents of the new bill) is to allow faxes for 48 hours after a verbal request, but not any longer. As it stands now, any company that believes you've given them verbal permission to fax them, can send you faxes forever. This can be a big problem especially when some less than honest fax marketing companies have been known to fake phone logs to pretend they had permission to fax people.
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    charles dillard, 4 Jul 2004 @ 7:05am

    Go ahead call them and call them and call them....

    This program was designed to vote for your favorite American idol. But, you can just as easily call the 800 number provided to check on mortgage rates, get a Disney vacation, or, whatever....
    This program will automatically dial the 800 number for your favorite idol, as many times as you tell it to. You can tell it to dial a certain number of times, or, just set the cycle time and let it go. A real-time log tells of your progress, and you can specify a custom modem string for your modem.
    Also- it will disconnect and immediately dial again when it detects busy. It's been tested with 56k internal US Robotics Sportsters, and Conextant modems with superb success.
    Place 200 calls in less than 20 minutes. And remember THEY ASKED YOU TO CALL!!
    Imagine if everyone did this.
    Use this link to get your freeware dialer.
    http://www.freewarefiles.com/programs.php?ProgramID=9521&cat…

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