No, really. I’m willing to show a degree of mercy and tolerance (unparolable life in prison at hard labor, let’s say, somewhere in the Nevada desert) for murderers, rapists, molesters, and terrorists. But spammers are just … evil. They should just be summarily shot. Or stepped on, like the cockroaches they are.<\/p>\n
So our voice mail system has a fax capability — if someone calls my direct line on a fax machine, the system will save the message as a voice mail that can then be routed (when I go into the system) to the fax machine of my choice. I’ve never used the feature, since I have an electronic fax number (which sends it, much more conveniently, to my e-mail), but I’ve been aware of it.<\/p>\n
So, now, evidently, are some fax spammers, who have taken to sending me fax spam (a\/k\/a “junk faxes”). Since dealing with them is a pain (I have to go in to the voice mail system, I have to listen to the prompts, I have to tell it a fax machine to route to, I have to go to the fax machine and pick up the … offer to CUT YOUR<\/u> HOUSE PAYMENT IN HALF<\/u>!!<\/em>), and since there is “spam filter” for these sorts of things … grrrrr.<\/p>\n Thus, I shall be contacting my local phone IT guru, and ask (a) what’s the best protocol (presumably calling the convenient 877 number at the bottom of the fax is useless), and\/or (b) can the fax service on my extension be disabled. Probably the latter, since, as noted, I never use it, and now it’s using me.<\/p>\n Grrr.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No, really. 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