Would ‘do not fax’ law work?

A “do not fax” law might not help much, because junk faxers are hard to find, and it would only apply to unsolicited faxes to home fax machines. And it would cost the state an estimated $156,000 to implement. Sponsor Rep. Tom Sloan, R-Lawrence, says all the Kansas attorney general’s office would have to do would be to compile the list and then pass it along to a national registry. The Legislature is right to give Sloan’s idea a hard look. That said, lawmakers should always be wary about bills based on the premise that people have some constitutional right not to be bothered. They don’t.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

3 Comments

  1. Ray Thomas
    Posted January 25, 2006 at 7:10 am | Permalink

    Total waste of time. There is a federal law which takes precedence.

    ” The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules prohibit sending unsolicited advertisements to a fax machine without the recipient’s prior express permission or unless the sender has an established business relationship with the recipient. This prohibition applies to fax machines at both businesses and residences”

    This law has been amended with enhancements to take effect in April, 2006. The state is way off base trying to address a telecommunications issue that is national is scope and has already been addressed. After all, what could the state of Kansas do about a fax that originates in another state?

    Waste of time, effort, money and resources. Totally useless and ridiculous to even address.

  2. Joe Williams
    Posted January 25, 2006 at 10:23 am | Permalink

    There were always good lunch deals coming through the fax. Unlike spam and telemarketers. The fax spam were actually good.

  3. Gertie
    Posted January 28, 2006 at 2:25 pm | Permalink

    Years ago, I worked as an office manager in an office that had 100 consecutive phone numbers. If a fax spammer got ahold of the first number (i.e. ext. 2300) it wouldn’t stop ringing until it got to 2399. It was SOOOOOOO irritating.As with any no call list, I should have the right to tell spammers to leave me alone. Believe me, if there were a NO SPAM list, my e-mail address would be at the top!