University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 27, 1989
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Area businesses seldom hit by fax machine ads
Unlisted numbers named as factor
By Travis Butler
Kansan staff writer
Although fax machine "junk mail" may be a growing problem across the country, it doesn't seem to be a threat to Lawrence and the Kansas City area.
In a survey of 15 University departments and seven Lawrence and Kansas City businesses, only one department and one business said they had had problems with unwanted fax documents.
"We've had our fax machine a couple of years." said Jane Johnson, secretary to the Chancellor. "We get one (ad) every six months or so."
Direct fax advertising has become a problem for some people since the use of fax machines became widespread. For the cost of a phone call, advertisers can send an ad to anyone with a fax machine, and the recipient has to pay for the paper it's printed on.
Many people have heard anecdotes about someone coming into the office in the morning and finding a bizzard of paper lying on the floor in front of it, and of it unwanted advertising. But this doesn't seem to happen in this area.
"We get probably about two or three a month, usually for fax paper," said Lynn Braker, a secretary at the Christenson, Barclay and Shaw advertising agency in Overland Park.
Braker take the office regularly gets about 500 normal documents a
did have a problem right after it got its fax machine.
The University purchasing office
"When we first got the machine, we got quite a few," said Jack Shipman, senior contracting officer. "Most of them, as I recall, had a notice with an 800 number to call if you didn't want to recieve any more. We did that and haven't had much of a problem since."
None of the other departments contacted reported having a problem. Some have taken actions that help deter unwanted fax messages.
"We don't publish our fax number for that reason alone," Mark Schraad, a staff member at Adworks, said. "We ask that it not be given out. My impression is that it's a real invasion of privacy."
Adworks, a Lawrence advertising agency, has much the same idea.
"We do not have our fax number on our letterhead," said Lila Watkins, personnel manager for the Kansas Geological Survey. "So we don't let it get out a lot."
The Consumer Affairs Association in Lawrence has not received any complaints or inquiries about fax mail advertising, said Susan Gomez, co-director.
Shipman suggested that fax junk mail might become a problem for the area in the future. But he doesn't get away from him from having a fax machine now.
"Especially now, the good aspect of fax machines far outweighs the bad aspects," he said.
Julie James/KANSAN
Lana Clements, kindergarten teacher at Hilltop Child Development Center, leads Ted Alsop, right, Brendan Gallagher and other children away from Fraser Hall.
End of playtime
Marxist guerrilla group murders Greek leader
ATHENS, Greece — The spokesman of Greece's leading political party was shot and killed yesterday, and a Marxist guerrilla group claimed responsibility.
The Associated Press
Police said Bakoyannis was shot at
The killing of Pavlov Bakoyanik took place hours before Parliament was scheduled to debate the biggest bank scandal in the nation's history. The guerrilla group, named Nov. 17,逮捕了丹尼斯 of having a role in the scandal.
least five times in the chest and stomach from close range with a 45-callier pistol in the hallway of his downtown office.
The 54-year-old former journalist and magazine publisher was rushed to the Evangelosimos hospital, where he operated on the operating table, police said.
Bakoyannis was elected to the 300-member unicameral Parliament in June. He was the spokesman for the conservative New Democracy party led by his father-in-law, Constantine Mitsotakis.
November 17 claimed responsibility in a $11\frac{1}{2}$-page proclamation scattered near the scene of the shooting.
The group first surfaced with the assassination of Athens CIA station chief Richard Welch in 1975. It also claimed responsibility for the June 1988 killing of U.S. defense attache William E. Nordeen.
It accused Bakoyannis, 54, of having connections with a banker linked to a scandal that contributed to the theft of millions of dollars in惹reas Papandreau, former premier.
hours the beginning of a two-day debate on evidence allegedly linking Papandreu and four of his senior Cabinet members to the $210 million Bank of Crete embezzlement scandal.
The murder delayed for several
The former chairman of the Bank of Crete, George Koskotas, has accused Papandreou and his ministers of skimming interest from deposits made by state-controlled corporations. He is in a Salem, Mass., prison awaiting extradition to Greece.
The debate is to end tomorrow.
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