On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:35:39AM -0500, Joshua Hutchinson wrote:
Ann, this is called a FAX bomb. It is similar to a "e-mail bomb" where someone drops a bunch of e-mail garbage on someone to clog their e-mail account. It is usually someone who wants to "get back" at someone else.
FAX bombs are especially nasty because then you are not only tying up their service, you are wasting tangible resources like paper and ink.
The reason our file is being used is probably pretty simple ... we have great big text files that are easily accessible and work perfectly for this kind of griefing.
It is doubtful anyone that has anything to do with PG had anything to do with this.
Josh
Agreed. It's not our responsibility to help people with their faxes... be polite, and firm, and tell them to seek local advice on how to cancel incoming faxes. Unfortunately, it's pretty easy to use our eBooks for this type of thing...including for SPAM emails. -- Greg
----- Original Message ----- From: Gutenberg9443@aol.com To: gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org, gbnewby@pglaf.org Subject: [gutvol-d] Re: prank someone is pulling Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 12:14:26 EDT
TO ALL:
Someone purporting to be from PG has faxed a book, in Finnish, the name of which is "Fredrika Runeberg," to the state of New Jersey Surveying Office. Whoever did it somehow managed to get around the requirement that the sender's name and telephone number is to be on the first page of all faxes. I have assured him that nobody in our organization did it. He wanted to fax the first page to me but my fax is down right now, and I wanted him to mail it as an attached file but he doesn't have a scanner. Therefore, he has lost the 33 sheets of paper that were in his fax machine and is afraid to try to reuse the fax machine because it will immediately try to go on printing. (I told him to turn it off, unplug it, then replug it and turn it on, and he would probably then be able to use the fax machine normally.)
He didn't give me his name other than "Jim." I have his telephone number but will release it only to Greg.
I have asked him to snail mail me the first page and let me see what I can find out.
If anybody on this ML is the culprit, cease and desist and notify me personally that you did it. Then I will only bite your head off, spit it into your face, and then turn it over to Greg.
If anybody on this ML is the culprit and does not admit it and gets caught, that person's ass is grass and that person will be permanently barred from this ML and everything else I can get him barred from. This conduct is unconscionable.
Anne
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