Does This Count As A Denial Of Service?
Interesting way to combat junk faxes as illustrated in David Lazarus’s column today:
But my absolute favorite suggestion came from several people who’d probably appreciate it if I keep their identities under wraps. When junk faxes proliferate, they say, they take some black crepe paper, feed it into their fax machines and then tape it into a never-ending loop.
Then they dial the number of the junk faxer and allow the Black Fax of Doom to do its dirty work at the other end of the line, wherever that may be.
I hope the original sender didn’t use an innocent from: fax number when they sent their junk fax . . . as you could inadvertently end up attacking an innocent fax machine with this “countermeasure”.
