Coonan puts fax spam in the firing line
Do faxes from Dell, investment seminars and outrageously overpriced directory listings keep rolling off the office fax machine week in, week out?
 Junk faxing: not subject to spam controls, and expected to grow in volume |
Do faxes from Dell, investment seminars and outrageously overpriced directory listings keep rolling off the office fax machine week in, week out?
Communication Minister Senator Helen Coonan has put fax spam squarely in the government's anti-spam sights, with the release of a discussion paper looking at the impact of fax spam on Australians.
It's not as small a problem as you may think: with telemarketers now gagged by the do-not-call register and tough anti-spam measures for Australian email marketers, more companies may start looking at junk faxes again as a way of getting their message out.
"Unlike other forms of unsolicited marketing (such as phone and email), no specific restrictions apply to unsolicited commercial faxes and some fax users have reported difficulties in reducing the volume of unsolicited material they receive," the government says in its discussion paper.
You've got until 17th September to
have your say .