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Alright, here's the story about the repeating data.

Posted by Subversive Nov 5 '15, 18:30

My client has a client who owes him around 3/4 of a million dollars for work my client's company performed for this other company. Apparently the owner is being quite the dick about it and refusing to pay. My client knows that this business relies on receiving faxes for a good portion of what it does, so his plan is to send him the invoice over and over and over again to make his life miserable until he pays. We looked around and couldn't find a way to make a fax program send the same fax over and over (probably to avoid situations just like this), so he sent me an excel copy of the invoice and I turned it into a 320 page PDF. He has a USB fax modem hooked up to his home computer and telephone line and plans to start sending the fax over and over again as of tomorrow morning.

It will be interesting to see if it works.

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Devil's advocate, no one ever thinks they're the bad guy. I'm sure the 3rd party believes your client is a dick and has wronged him in some way. -- (edited) - Mop Nov 5, 19:39 3
- It makes zero difference to me who is right or who is wrong. I'm getting paid by the hour. - Subversive Nov 5, 19:59 2
  - This is the opening line of a comic book about a badass IT tech. -- nm - Reagen Nov 5, 20:05 1
    - We're rebooting the Bastard Operator From Hell. -- nm - Mop Nov 5, 20:09
Operation: Fax Overload is underway. - Subversive Nov 5, 19:26 1
- He'll be in the next Bond movie. -- nm - Reagen Nov 5, 19:28
What if you printed out enough copies so that you could tape one end to the other in a loop? -- nm - Reagen Nov 5, 18:47 2
- That was my fallback option if I couldn't get the multi page PDF to work.... - Subversive Nov 5, 19:03 1
  - analog hacks are the best. -- nm - Reagen Nov 5, 19:04
seriously, who uses faxes? -- nm - mafic Nov 5, 18:46 6
- The IRS, trucking companies still largely do as well. -- nm - spamlet Nov 5, 19:19
- dentists -- nm - Dano Nov 5, 19:07
- Specifically, in my experience, construction general contractors do. - Subversive Nov 5, 19:05 1
  - this must be one place where Australia is ahead. there's effectively zero use of fax here now. -- nm - mafic Nov 5, 19:20
- lots of people! -- nm - jangles Nov 5, 18:48 1
  - yah, it came up here again recently, I saw. not nearly as often as it used to be, but there's still plenty - real estate, medical, some legal, etc. -- nm - b. Nov 5, 19:07
That sounds like it would run into FTC trouble. -- nm - Max Nov 5, 18:36 4
- Would it be the CRTC here? -- nm - Beryllium Nov 5, 19:09 1
  - Yeah, if it were anyone, that's likely who it would be. -- nm - Subversive Nov 5, 19:27
- Yeah, I told him he might get in trouble. He didn't seem worried. -- nm - Subversive Nov 5, 19:03 1
  - I just find it highly amusing. Hopefully I'm not in some sort of trouble as an accessory.... -- nm - Subversive Nov 5, 19:08

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