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Cute, but I'd be concerned that automated unsolicited faxes are not necessarily something that people want to receive.
by eridius 11y ago
Cute, but I'd be concerned that automated unsolicited faxes are not necessarily something that people want to receive.
- jlgaddis 11y agoI'm pretty sure that every company with a fax machine whose number isn't private is accustomed to receiving "automated unsolicited faxes". At $work, we receive just as many (if not more) spam faxes as we do legitimate ones. People just toss 'em in the trash and don't think twice about it.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoI worked for a few months in a research facility in the UK, and had a fax machine on a desk next to me. Once a day, it would turn itself on and print out an ad for a car, or insurance, or something. I was shocked to discover that spam is a thing on fax machines.
- vidarh 11y agoSpam has been a thing on fax machines since long before Canter and Siegel's infamous green card spam on Usenet (1994; it wasn't the first, but it was the first truly major spam)..
- eridius 11y agoSure, but that doesn't make it ok to spam people. By the same logic, you could say it's perfectly fine to receive lots of unsolicited email spam. Just because we already receive a lot doesn't mean we want any more.
- grhmc 11y agoSometimes political campaign teams will fax each other pictures of black construction paper, just to be ugly.
- kafkaesq 11y agoRight, but you have to remember that the people running these institutions are routine subjecting their inhabitants (a fair portion of whom are innocent and/or unfairly convicted) to all kinds of unpleasant things they'd prefer not to "receive", to wit: rape (via silent acquiescence), beatings, gratuitous solitary confinement, intentionally inadequate food provisions, routine humiliation, etc. So in cases like these, a bit if turnabout is more than fair play.