(Message d:682) /home/mjd/bin/mailpager 682 Return-Path: help@junkfax.org Delivery-Date: Thu Apr 14 12:37:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mjd-www-junkfax@plover.com Received: (qmail 3858 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2005 12:37:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 172.16.3.76) (63.201.144.76) by plover.com with SMTP; 14 Apr 2005 12:37:38 -0000 Message-ID: <200504140534.NIKCOPAHWF@172.16.3.76> Reply-To: "Junkfax.org" From: "Junkfax.org" To: Subject: Congress will legalize junk faxing unless you call TODAY Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 05:34:26 -0700 Organization: ATLK-ILmbglH8149729-77166Oz2116315-aBzQp1261122412zYW223 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0034_01C221EC.6C64F7B0" X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000ams X-MimeOLE: Produced by Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C221EC.6C64F7B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" You are getting this email because you (or someone you know) registered your email at www.junkfax.org. I promised we would rarely contact you. Most of you have NEVER been contacted. But now we need your help URGENTLY because Congress plans on passing a bill TODAY that will render your fax machine useless. Congress wants to turn your fax machine into a printing press for advertisers. If you don't call BOTH your Senators to complain, they will think nobody minds, and this bill WILL PASS (see instructions below on how to make the call). If you thought you were getting too much junk on your fax machine before, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Due to pressure from business groups and trade associations, they are about to LEGALIZE the sending of junk faxes! That's right, they are going to do for junk faxes what they did recently to spam....make it LEGAL to do as long as the advertiser adds an "opt out" notice on it (with no time frame for compliance) and remembers to put the number to use to opt out (if they forget to do that, you can't opt out). And non-profits don't even have to put an opt out notice on their faxes. So it's a real bonanza for businesses. So now all these businesses can save major $$$ on their advertising costs since fax advertising is MUCH cheaper than direct mail (about 20 times cheaper!) because they are shifting all the costs to you!!! And you have no say in the matter and may be completely unable to opt out. Think of thousands of business letting you know about all the great deals on health insurance, mortgages, vacations, and stock tips. Today it is ILLEGAL to send junk faxes and so only a few people did. But that's about to change. Congress is about to make sending junk faxes LEGAL so you'll be getting 10 to 100 times more unwanted advertising sent to your fax machine without your consent. You can read my Senate testimony against this bill at yesterday's hearing: http://commerce.senate.gov/hearings/witnesslist.cfm?id=1457 At the hearing, they didn't dispute a single point I made! But it didn't change the bill one bit!!!! Even though they said I made good points (such as "no recipient wants to receive more junk faxes...ask them yourself!"), they didn't want to change so much as a comma. If you are as outraged at this as I am, you MUST CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY. Not tomorrow. Not in a week. RIGHT NOW. This bill is going for a vote TODAY. It could pass the Senate TODAY. You MUST ACT RIGHT NOW. Do NOT assume someone else will do it and you don't have to. They count the TOTAL number of calls, not whether one person called. The more people call, the better. Get your friends to call too if they get junk faxes. step 1: go to: http://www.senate.gov/index.htm and select your state from the drop down. step 2: call each senator at the number listed. You only have to make TWO phone calls. A staff person will answer the phone. step 3: say the following: "my name is john smith. I live at 124 easy street in san jose, California. I am calling to DEMAND that Senator vote AGAINST S.714 (the Junk Fax bill) unless the "EBR exemption" is REMOVED ENTIRELY. Your Senator NEEDS to hear from you. The business community is VERY well organized and has been lobbying heavily to be able to open up your fax machine as the next frontier in low-cost mass advertising. For more info, please see: http://www.junkfax.org/fax/legislation/jfpa.htm ------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C221EC.6C64F7B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" E-mail message content
You are getting this email because you (or someone you know) registered your email at www.junkfax.org.
 
I promised we would rarely contact you. Most of you have NEVER been contacted. But now we need your help URGENTLY because Congress plans on passing a bill TODAY that will render your fax machine useless. Congress wants to turn your fax machine into a printing press for advertisers. If you don't call BOTH your Senators to complain, they will think nobody minds, and this bill WILL PASS (see instructions below on how to make the call).
 
If you thought you were getting too much junk on your fax machine before, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Due to pressure from business groups and trade associations, they are about to LEGALIZE the sending of junk faxes! 
 
That's right, they are going to do for junk faxes what they did recently to spam....make it LEGAL to do as long as the advertiser adds an "opt out" notice on it (with no time frame for compliance) and remembers to put the number to use to opt out (if they forget to do that, you can't opt out). And non-profits don't even have to put an opt out notice on their faxes. So it's a real bonanza for businesses. So now all these businesses can save major $$$ on their advertising costs since fax advertising is MUCH cheaper than direct mail (about 20 times cheaper!) because they are shifting all the costs to you!!! And you have no say in the matter and may be completely unable to opt out. Think of thousands of business letting you know about all the great deals on health insurance, mortgages, vacations, and stock tips. 
 
Today it is ILLEGAL to send junk faxes and so only a few people did. But that's about to change. Congress is about to make sending junk faxes LEGAL so you'll be getting 10 to 100 times more unwanted advertising sent to your fax machine without your consent.
 
You can read my Senate testimony against this bill at yesterday's hearing:
 
At the hearing, they didn't dispute a single point I made! But it didn't change the bill one bit!!!! Even though they said I made good points (such as "no recipient wants to receive more junk faxes...ask them yourself!"), they didn't want to change so much as a comma.
 
If you are as outraged at this as I am, you MUST CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY. Not tomorrow. Not in a week. RIGHT NOW. This bill is going for a vote TODAY. It could pass the Senate TODAY. You MUST ACT RIGHT NOW. 
 
Do NOT assume someone else will do it and you don't have to. They count the TOTAL number of calls, not whether one person called. The more people call, the better. Get your friends to call too if they get junk faxes.
 
step 1:
go to:
and select your state from the drop down.
 
step 2:
call each senator at the number listed. You only have to make TWO phone calls. A staff person will answer the phone.
 
step 3:
say the following: "my name is john smith. I live at 124 easy street in san jose, California. I am calling to DEMAND that Senator <your senators name> vote AGAINST S.714 (the Junk Fax bill) unless the "EBR exemption" is REMOVED ENTIRELY. <then explain that you are upset and do not want more junk faxes and to have additional new EBR exemptions so that businesses can legally send you JUNK faxes>
 
Your Senator NEEDS to hear from you. The business community is VERY well organized and has been lobbying heavily to be able to open up your fax machine as the next frontier in low-cost mass advertising.
 
For more info, please see:
 

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