1.   Federal law already prohibits the mass distribution of junk faxes.

2.   In the last Congress, a coalition-backed proposal to extend to e-mail an existing law banning junk faxes made little headway.

3.   It is the technological heir to bulk marketing, including postal mail, boiler-room phone operations and junk faxes.

4.   Now Congress is considering three anti-spam bills, one of which would hold junk e-mail to the same standard as junk faxes.

5.   Office manager Dewana Smith tried a different tack to stop junk faxes from coming into her company, Digital Graphics System, with about the same amount of luck.

6.   The measure resembles earlier laws aimed at mitigating the unwanted side effects of older technologies, from automated telemarketing calls to junk faxes.

7.   There were two principal reasons why we banned junk fax.

8.   There is something that folks who hate junk faxes can do.

9.   Mende is angry because he says junk faxes tie up the machine he uses to communicate with ships at sea around the world.