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/ | The United Ignorance Front |
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| | FAX MACHINE FUN |
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| | written by: The Iocat |
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| | this article originally |
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| | appeard in |
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| | THE UNDERGROUND EXPRESS |
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| |"the official voice of the UIF"|
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| |this article is (c) 1989 by the|
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| |UIF. All rights reserved. This|
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| |file may be distributed un-|
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| |altered exclusivly in the modem|
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| |community. (if you feel a dire|
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| |need to put your BBS's # on it|
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| |do it at the end) |
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| |_______________________________|
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|/_______________________________/
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INTRO-
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In the late 80's we have seen a massive explosion in the popularity of fax
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machines. Everyone has one. They are cheap, easy to use, and very usefull. Up
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untill now, however, they have been almost exclusivly in the province of the buisness
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world
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. Just for those of you who have been in comas for the last few years, I'll explain
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fax machines to you.
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Fax machines are combination scanners/modems/printers. You can transmit the
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contents of a piece of paper to another fax over the phone lines. Usually, your fax
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also prints the number you called from on the first sheet of the transmittal. It is
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e
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asy to see why buisnesses like these. No longer content with Federal Express, now
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letters can go cross country in minutes. Faxes have about 200-250 dpi resolution,
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and print out on rolls of thermal paper. For some odd reason, most of them are 4800
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baud
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THE GOOD PART-
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"So what" you ask? Most people don't seem to realize the potential available
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here. When I worked at The FHLB, we used to get faxes all the time, with requests
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for checks. Occaisionaly, we also got short notes from the idiots at the other
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banks.
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This is what gave me the idea for what I call, for lack of a better term, Fax
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Piracy.
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Fax Piracy is the ultimate crank call. Let me give you an example.
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There was this Library I hated, and, like everyone else, they have a fax. So
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what me and a few of my freinds did was send them requests, "from" another Library
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for books. I found out later, from a kid who worked there that they wasted about
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$50,
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sending them all the books. Not much, but if you know how cheap librarians are, you
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can imagine the shit fits they had.
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Next, we send them a "Mobius Fax" we got some sheets of black construction
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paper, taped about 10 of them together, and started feeding them through the fax.
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Once the start of the long sheet we had created came through, we taped it to the end.
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his went on continuosly for about 15 minutes untill their (very expensive) thermal
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paper ran out. Since we had sent them nothing but black paper, it completely covered
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and ruined all of their paper. This used up their 3month paper allocation at once,
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an
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d they had to borrow from petty cash to buy more.
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Finally we sent them a little note, telling them what idiots they were, and
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signing it "the fax pirates"
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HOW TO DO IT-
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First, and this is VERY IMPORTANT- Always remember to REPROGRAM the fax so it
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displays someone elses name and number. If you forget to do this, its like sending a
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letter bomb with a return adress.
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Second, decide what to send. This is entirely up to you (duh) , and depends
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on whether you want to annoy them, or really destroy them.* Wierd requests from
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other campies you hate, long rambling stories, or strange art is always good. Be a
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littl
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e creative. (this part is especially fun if you have a Mac, and access to a
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laserwriter)
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Third, send it. (wow, some people need to be told everything, don't they)
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What? You don't know their fax #? Its not in information? Its not in the phone
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book? Well, keep reading!
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HOW TO GET FAX PHONE NUMBERS-
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This is just way easier than it should be. Call and ask. I'm serious, we've
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done this probably over 30 times, and NO ONE HAS EVER QUESTIONED OUR REQUEST! I'll
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give you a sample of a call that actually happened. (this is verbatum)(we taped it)
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IBM LADY Hello, IBM, may I help you?
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ME Hi, this is Biff Fulgate from over here at Linear Data Systems
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Can I get your fax number, those boys in research need to send
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something over and they lost the number again.
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IBM LADY Please hold on a moment
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ME Sure thing. Hah, those cooks over in research would probably
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lose their heads if they wern't screwed on.
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IBM LADY Haha. Now is that the Tower 700 number?
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ME Um...let me check here... Yeah, that's it. (Tower 700? what?)
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IBM LADY Ok, hold on
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(Long wait during which I get slightly nervous)
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IBM LADY Ok That number is 313-xxx-xxxx
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ME Thanks, Bye
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Also, most ads have fax numbers. Don't fuck with little companies though.
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A) they don't need it, B) they are probably more suspicious, C) it hurts them more
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than it would hurt a big company. be a caring capitolist.
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If you need any suggestions as to who's number to get try the following-
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newspapers, radios stations, big companies, libraries, city & state governments, the
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right to life movement, ect.
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HINTS-
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Act like you know whats going on at all times.
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Be polite, and a little bit familiar
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Make sure you have a plausable reason for getting the number
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Don't laugh
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Let the person who sounds most 'adult-like' make the call
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Make sure you have a plausable name
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Remember, the larger the company, the less the people know and care about other parts
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of the company, so the greater chance you have of not getting hassled.
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ALSO! Don't forget to change the "number" you are calling from.
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If you want to send a Mobius Fax, usually Faxes have paper feed trays (we didn't know
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that when we did it)
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ALSO- NEVER, EVER, DO THIS TO ATT!
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HOW TO GET A FAX TO USE-
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Well, if you don't have one, try mommy's or daddy's office. Most Campus
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offices have faxes you can pretend that you are supposed to be using (tell them the
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Library sent you). Many print-shops (like Kinko's) have fax machines that you can use
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for
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a nominal fee. And, just like terminals in the early 80's, most fax machines are
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just sitting out in offices, if you dress nicely, and look like you know what you're
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doing, no one is going to ask questions.
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SOME NUMBERS TO CALL-
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I have a pretty good list of #'s that you can call, but I will upload it in a
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different file, at a later date.
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IF YOU LIKED THIS FILE-
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Please send a host of annoying faxes to your local "Right to Life" chapter.
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*-- for really good info on how to really fuck up a company with mail, or faxes, I
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reccomend Keith Wade's POISON PEN LETTERS & YOUR REVENGE IS IN THE MAIL both
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available from the Loompanics Book Catalog (see my file on that for the adress)
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the above article is fiction and any similarity between it and real life is purely
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coincidental.| yeah, right! sure! it REALLY IS!
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