To which Richard replied:
> That's what they said about junk faxes, until one day Congress showed up
> for work and wrote this on our behalf:
[snip]
> 227. Restrictions on use of telephone equipment
> * (a) Definitions
> * o (1) The term 'automatic telephone dialing system' means
> * equipment which has the capacity -
> * + (A) to store or produce telephone numbers to be called, using
> * a random or sequential number generator; and
> * + (B) to dial such numbers.
> * o (2) The term 'telephone facsimile machine' means equipment which
> * has the capacity (A) to transcribe text or images, or both,
> * from paper into an electronic signal and to transmit that
> * signal over a regular telephone line, or (B) to transcribe
> * text or images (or both) from an electronic signal received
> * over a regular telephone line onto paper.
You didn't send the wording of the restriction itself, but if this is
how they define telephone facsimile machine, how could it exclude junk
faxes sent via fax modem (they don't have the capability of
transcribing text or images from paper...)
Regards, Chris
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