What Can You Do to Stop Junk Faxes?

olddoc asks: "I am having a growing problem with junk faxes. Unlike email, it costs me money when I get a fax so junk faxes really tick me off. A while ago, I gave my number to a removal number and now I am getting more junk faxes than ever." What options are there for dealing with this? If you've also had this problem, what did you do and how effective was it in stopping unwanted faxes?

Solution

[Anonymous Coward]

Fax them back with a bunch of black paper taped into a loop.

Re:Solution

[Anonymous Coward]

Or send them an endless Tub Girl loop...

Artillery

[Nimey]

I've always favored artillery barrages. Gets the point across nicely.

It's polite to use small guns (37mm to 75mm) as a first warning, then if they persist bring in the 155mm guns.

The biggest troublemakers are no match to an Iowa-class 16" rifle.

I usually just sink the offending Junk

[Timesprout]

I keep a fleet of submarines specially for this purpose.

Re:Artillery

[Arthur B.]

If everything fails they'll probably listen to Reason.

Uhhhhh.....

[balance one]

What's a FAX?

No, that's "polite request"

[Anonymous Coward]

Reason is its big brother.

Re:Artillery

[theCoder]

I think the OP was referring to Reason [wikipedia.org], the rail gun used in "Snow Crash". Everybody eventually listens to Reason.