The other spam

You know you've been there. You're waiting for an important fax, but each time you get up to check the machine, you're faced with a pile garbage, still warm off the press: Real Estate training course brochures; Caribbean vacation offers; that law office upstairs that keeps sending you lunch their orders.

Biscom this week announced tool aimed at squelching unwanted of spam faxes with its FAXCOM Fax Server 5.3 with a spam fax filter tool.

BISCOM contends that while spam on your PC is annoying, spams are easily deleted with the click of the mouse from the comfort of a cubicle chair. Repeatedly receiving unsolicited and mis-directed fax messages can be a bigger annoyance than electronic spam, not to mention a tree killer and waste of fax toner, the company says.

The FAXCOM product is a fax server that runs on a Windows or Linux box that can be used to filter out unwanted transmitting subscriber IDs (or TSIs, that information you see at the top of a fax that includes the sender's business name and fax number). The server can save the spam fax to a file, delete it, or simply hang up the connection when the spam TSI is detected.

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