From October 1, it will be illegal to send someone an unsolicited facsimile message in the state of Connecticut, with violators subject to a penalty of $200 or the actual damages of their victims, whichever is greater – the governor’s hand was reportedly hovering uncertainlyover the bill, but he was convinced and passed it into law when lobbyists for the junk fax industry jammed his fax machine with their flackery and prevented an important message getting through – and Connecticut Republican Representative Christopher Shays has introduced a junk bill in the US Congress, which would require that the junk fax industry keep lists of people who don’t want such messages and that senders identify themselves and their phone numbers on each page of a message, exposing themselves to counterattack by irate recipients.
