[hylafax-users] Generating lousy performance

[Lou Katz <lou@metron.com>]

I am running hylafax on a phone line where I have never given out
the number. It apparently has been found by junk faxers who do 'war
dialing' to discover phone numbers that respond to fax tones.

Right now I turn off fax answer nights and weekends (and only allow
data answer), which has reduced, but not eliminated the junk faxes.

Now, unlike e-mail spam, fax spam ties up the sender's resources
for as long as it take to negotiate a fax session and send the turd,
typically 1-2 minutes. What if my 'fax machine' turned out to be
really really crappy - requesting resends every few scanlines?
How long could I tie up a sender - minutes? hours? And maybe, just
as the sender was finishing, I could issue a paper-jam or out-of-paper
response?

So - to anybody who really knows the internals of hylafax, could
this be done? I also wouldn't be surprised if the junk-faxers have
some sort of error threshold where they give up, but most normal
fax machines won't, so if I stay right around that it will give
maximum pain to junk faxers and yet let the occasional incoming
real fax through. And almost all junk faxes are a single sheet,
without cover, so I could just turn it off after page 1.

My setup and usage is such that I will not be bothered by the
increase in incoming phone time.

-- 

-=[L]=-

You know, if one person, just one person does it they may think he's
really sick and they won't take him.  And if two people, two people do
it, in harmony, they may think they're both faggots and they won't take
either of them.  And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three
people walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out.
They may think it's an organization.  And can you, can you imagine fifty
people a day, I said fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's
Restaurant and  walking out.  And friends they may thinks it's a movement.
	-Arlo Guthrie


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