In <E18w0gU-0005DT-00(_at_)mail(_dot_)nitros9(_dot_)org> "Alan DeKok"
<aland(_at_)freeradius(_dot_)org> writes:
The simplest answer is that junk faxers won't pay long distance
charges to send faxes, so going off-shore where the laws don't apply
isn't an option.
Add to that:
* Even when the phone call is local, faxing costs a lot more money than
email.
* This eliminates a lot of the very marginal sales.
* It also means that is very important that there is a way of
contacting the seller (a surprising percentage have no valid
contact info).
* It is too expensive to use junk faxes as a DoS attack.
* Faxes are more public. You aren't going to be able to advertise
things like porn or viagra.
* Phones have never, by default, allowed you to dial into them and
silently dial back out to any number of your choosing the way the
early versions of WinSocks was an open proxy.
* Fax machines have never, by default, allowed you to automatically
relay faxes to another fax machine the way early versions of
sendmail was an open relay.
* Faxes are point to point rather than regularly sent through (closed)
relays.
* It is also harder to "forge" the caller-id, or prevent the phone
company to trace the call. Hard core junk faxers could be caught
much easier.
* By the time email spam started up, there were vastly more email
mailboxes than fax machines. This gap has only increased.
-wayne
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