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Is a printer publicly accessible over an IP network really so different from a fax machine publicly accessible over switched phone network? Hell, many times (probably always these days) the fax machine is a printer so if the printer is a "computer" the fax machine half of it surely should be as well.

I can see them getting you for spam, just as they can with unsolicited faxes I believe, but anything more than that? Seems a little silly.

To add to the printer/fax comparison, I have known people who used printers in different physical locations within an organization as a "fax machine" that was easier to use with a computer. Need to send some documents to the guys across the state? Print it to them.



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