2.10. Complying with the Telephone Consumer Protection Act

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 makes it unlawful for any person to use a computer or other electronic device, including fax machines, to send any message unless this message clearly contains, in a margin at the top or bottom of each transmitted page or on the first page of the transmission, the following information:

• date and time the message is sent
• an identification of the business, other entity, or individual sending the message
• the telephone number of the sending machine or such business, other entity, or individual. The telephone number provided may not be a 900 number or any other number for which charges exceed local or long-distance transmission charges.

To program this information into your fax application, complete the following steps:

• Use the fx_setparm( ) function to set the company/sender in the FC_HDRUSER parameter and the telephone number in the FC_LOCALID parameter.
• By default, the fax sending functions will send a header at the top of every page containing the date and time as well as the parameters set through the fx_setparm( ) function.

This function is discussed in detail in Chapter 9. Fax Library Function Reference.

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