[13296] in Cypherpunks
Re: legal rqmt for FAX return phone #
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. J. Harvey)
Fri May 6 21:07:05 1994
Date: Fri, 06 May 1994 21:03:19 +0600
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: harveyrj@vt.edu (R. J. Harvey)
Cc: harveyrj@vt.edu
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hi:
>
>I thought I heard somewhere that it was illegal to send
>anonymous faxes -- namely, that there was some regulation
>that you had to program your FAX machine with your phone
>number so it would get sent automagically whenever you
>faxed anything. Essentially it was ILLEGAL to fax without
>providing the recipient with a mechanism to find out where
>it came from. Of course, I suspect enforcement is lax, but
>still... :-) :-(
>
>Can someone please confirm this, or help with a reference?
>Private e-mail is fine...
>
according to the manual I received with my copy of
WinFax Lite (p. 2-10), "recently passed US legislation"
requires date, time, ID of entity, and tel # of sender.
unfortunately, it doesn't say WHAT that legislation
might be! the copyright on the manual is June 1993.
rj
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R. J. Harvey (harveyrj.beva.blacksburg.va.us)
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