Re: flexfax: Tag line suppression

[Nico Kadel-Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Bob Perschau wrote:

> > On Wed, Jul 07, 1999 at 03:00:43PM -0700, Alan Sparks wrote:
> > > Is this for use in the U.S.?  I thought Federal law dictated the
> presence of
> > > a tagline...  Please correct me if I err.
> >
> > US Law requires that all Fax transmissions be identifiable as to their
> > sender.  A cover page, with the appropriate information on it, fulfills
> > this requirement.  It's also, I believe, only necessary if the receiver
> > is someone "with whom you do not have an (already) ongoing business
> > relationship".
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- jr 'IANAL' a
> > --
> 
> This is the case.  From what I understand we are going to use it for order
> confirmation with distributors.  In any event, can someone cite the law in
> question?  I'll need it if it comes to a head-butting contest with our
> applications people.

The "junk fax" law, I believe USCC section 18, paragraph 2701.  You
should probably double check it: I don't have it immediately on hand.

> Getting back to my original question, can the tagline be eliminated without
> going into the source?  It seems that you should be able to do it in the
> config(4) file, but thats not working.

An alternative is to edit the Postscript that creates the tagline, and
comment it out: that way, HylaFAX runs merrily ignorant that the tagline
is not being printed. A kludge, I admit....

			Nico Kadel-Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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