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Re: Don't call registry off the map?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Jun 27 13:31:36 2003

To: Chris Woodfield <rekoil@semihuman.com>
Cc: Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 13:30:44 -0400
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


In message <20030627165622.GA13781@semihuman.com>, Chris Woodfield writes:
>

>
>Making a telemarketing call to a cellphone is already illegal. I think it's=
> under the=20
>same law that forbids junk faxes.

It's a different law, but yes, both are illegal.

Of course, my home fax machine got a junk fax just two days ago.  Last 
time that happened, I filed a formal complaint with the FCC.  See
http://www.junkfax.org for more information.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)



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