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To: SI Dave who wrote (1976)	2/20/2006 10:36:41 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4105

Here's a site devoted to going after junk faxers, and quite successfully. In fact, he nailed a notorious penny stock fraudster this way: junkfax.org There are large fines for spam abuse under the Can-Spam Act as well (up to $11K per violation), as I've suggested here: Message 22022267 Bottom line is that courts do award money for this. Just ask the guy running junkfax. - Jeff

To: SI Dave who wrote (1976)	2/20/2006 11:35:30 AM
From: rrufff	Respond to of 4105

I understand that a human initiates the program. It seemed when I used to read RB, that there was a program that generated alphabetical random names, quite similar to what seems to be happening here. RB would delete them and then 10 more would appear the next day. It didn't seem to require any effort on the part of the human who set the program in motion unfortunately. Kind of like an automatic dialer in a way. Just keep at it and hope that enough people see the spam. I'm no expert in this area but it seemed that the use of names that are letter scrambles shows it's just a computer program and that you may have to work harder to prevent the program from just doing the same thing over and over. I wish you luck in the endeavor.