[PLUG] Joe Jobbed

alan alan at clueserver.org
Fri Oct 5 16:38:11 UTC 2007


On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Rich Shepard wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Aaron Burt wrote:
>
>> It's illegal and has been for a long time.  What's more, if you can track
>> down the FAX spammer, you can collect $500/FAX:
>> http://www.junkfax.org/fax/action/how_to_sue.html
>
> Aaron,
>
>   Theoretically, that's true. In Oregon you can even ask for triple
> damamges. We tried that once, but got nowhere. The only person I know who
> made a little money from suing -- and stopped a portion of his fax spam --
> is a Vancouver lawyer. He let me use his letter content, but since his
> letterhead showed the threat came from a lawyer, the spammers paid more
> attention to him than they did to me.

It is one of those laws that exists, but gets little or no enforcement. 
Given the current political climate, I doubt it will get any any time 
soon.  (Consumer protection is a pretty low priority these days.)

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