jtaylor wrote:
>> Currently there is no law that says (where I live) that I cannot
>> program a computer to call numbers looking for fax machines.
> I am not a lawyer, but I believe what you propose to do IS indeed
> against federal law.
So what?? 'federal law' is *NOT* relevant to the original poster. He can ignore whatever it says, with absolute impunity.
It absolutely is against the law to call certain
> restricted numbers or a line under monitor without legitimate purpose
> (and a review of your call out log would show that it wasn't
> legitimate).
Wrong again. The original poster is subject to *NO* such restrictions.
Not only 'not a lawyer', but not much of a geographer, either. :) the original poster lives in _Canada_. And the laws *there* about use of telephones/modems and sending faxes, are *very* different.
Those differences *are* what he was complaining about.