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| Fax laws?! Why doesn't our legislature fashion laws that are used for sending faxes to apply to anyone sending email? It seems like these SPAM laws are useless unless they get equated to something that already has widespread support. Junk email wastes arguably more resources than junk faxes ever did! A junk fax at an office would be thrown away only by people wandering by the fax machine. Junk email is typically directed at several employees of the same company, who all have to deal with wasting their time processing the email to determine if it really is SPAM or not... but it's still worse for email because of all the emails that contain malicious content. What if you received a fax that took over your fax machine and caused it to start sending faxes to other people!?
Sure, software SPAM filters can eliminate most SPAM, but all SPAM filters do is create an arms race of SPAMers outsmarting SPAM filters. In retrospect, if the technology existed at the time, would it still have been acceptable to send junk faxes if everybody were required to install junk fax filtering software/devices?
Equate SPAM to junk faxes and maybe these laws will be more effective. |
