Re: VOIP - What Works? What Doesn't?

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, March 24, 2012 5:11:19 PM UTC-4, ABLE1 wrote:
>
> Chris, I have a cure for your "junk" faxes.
>
> I used to get all kinds of faxes from Delicatessen menus to porn.
>
> I got fed up so I made 25 blank photo copies on my copy machine with
> the cover open. That makes black pages on my machine. The next time
> I got a fax, I copied down the telephone number. Then, late at night
> when I thought that no one would be there, I faxed about 100 pages
> of the black copies to them with the final page note saying .....
>
> Since you continue to waste my paper and toner supplies, I thought I
> do the same to you. STOP SENDING ME YOUR FUCKING FAXES!!!!!!!!!
>
> I did that to about five of six of the worst offenders and the faxes
> stopped. Obviously, turn off your fax at night so that they can't
> return the favor.
>
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>
> Why waste you money on copier toner to make black pages??
> Just use black construction paper.  Worked great last week.
>
> The other thing that works is use a fax modem and then send their
> junk fax back after scanning into a .bmp file.  Will break up that
> one page into about 28 pages.  They usually get the hint.
>
> I get next to no junk faxes any more since I don't publish my fax
> number, except to customer or those that I want to receive.
>
> Les

I just made the black copies once. I keep them in a folder in my file cabinet. Since I use a fax machine ( I have an "all in one"), I couldn't send a .bmp file but I didn't know that would do that to a fax. I'll try to keep it in mind for the future.