In 1991, a federal law called the Telephone Consumer Protection Act made it illegal to send unsolicited commercial faxes. Makes perfect common sense: Why should I have to pay for paper and toner for you to spam me with ads?

Here’s an interesting article about junk faxing and a lawsuit in Missouri. Personally, I’m more interested in this article about three companies recently settling junk fax class action lawsuits.

One of those companies, Kappa Publishing, will be paying out $1.5 million, plus $560,000 in legal fees and expenses, plus another $65,000 for administrative expenses — a total of $2,125,000 for engaging in an activity that everyone agreed more than a decade ago was illegal.

Kappa Publishing is a former employer of mine.

So that’s how schadenfreude feels.

This entry was posted on Saturday, December 31st, 2005 at 9:27 am and is filed under This 'n' That.