Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 17:08:37 -0500 (EST)
From: murr rhame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sending unsolicited faxes is illegal in the US under federal law.
There is a fairly stiff penalty per incident (a few hundred bucks
as I recall). Do a web search on "junk fax" is you want more
info.
Others have mentioned this so I should note taht I agreed to get the faxes;
they were not unsolicited. They told me they would add me to the fax list
when I signed up and I agreed. Same for the email list (though I'm not
sure every member is aware of their options). What I didn't ask for was
middle of the night faxes (because they use an auto sender and before I got
DSL my fax line was busy all day) or 800k messages.
As for the size of their emails and the choice of using the HTML
format, I consider this rude, clueless and arrogant. Doesn't
make good business sense to tick off your potential customers.
I agree. If I felt like talking to them I'd suggest making a weekly
specials website with all the pictures and text formating they want. Then
send everyone on the list a text-only teaser with the URL.
BTW: 800k for a single photograph is absurd. A 100k Jpeg will
produce a large sharp photograph. They must have sent a bitmap
file.
It was a .jpg. I agree, 800k is ridiculous. I didn't look at it but I
assume it was big because it was from a Photo-CD or something. Those come
back huge (file and physical size both) because they are initial scans.
Then you are supposed to edit them!
Thank you everyone who has written. I'm feeling much better!
Cyndi
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