Setting Block Junk Fax - Pitney Bowes 4100 Operator's Manual

Setting Block Junk Fax

Although it's illegal, unauthorized fax traffic — "junk fax" — keeps coming.
Your fax machine's Block Junk Fax feature lets you bar the gates... but, first,
please understand how this feature works, to determine whether it is right
for you.
There are four possible settings for the Block Junk Fax feature:
• Off — The feature is turned off.
• Mode 1 (the display calls it "Mode1" — Your fax machine limits
document reception to fax machines whose phone numbers are
stored in your autodialer (i.e., one-touch and speed-dial numbers).
Your machine checks to see if any phone numbers in your autodialer
matches the last four digits of the calling fax machine's Subscriber
ID (remember, that's the phone number part of the TTI). If it does
find such a match, your machine will disconnect the call.
• Mode2 (the display calls it "Mode2") — In this mode, your fax
machine rejects document reception from fax machines whose phone
numbers are stored in the blocked number list (we'll explain). Your
fax machine checks to see if any phone number in your blocked
numbers list matches the last eight digits of the calling fax
machine's phone number. If it does find such a match, your machine
will disconnect the call.
• Mode 3 (the display calls it "Mode3" — This combines Modes 1 and
2; this is for use if, for example, you do wish to send a document to,
but do not wish to receive from a fax machine whose phone number
is stored in your autodialer. If so, store the same last eight digits (at
least four digits) of the phone number as your autodialer into the
blocked numbers list so that you can activate this mode.
Note: In the Block Junk Fax dial list under Modes 2 and 3, your fax can
store up to 50 separate fax numbers from which you wish to reject
calls.
So, before you activate the Block Junk Fax feature, please consider:
• Not all fax machine owners enter their phone numbers in their
Subscriber IDs. — With this feature activated, your machine would
reject faxes from such machines.
• Access codes can cause confusion. — If an autodialer entry ends with
long-distance or other access codes, Block Junk Fax will block out
calls from those fax machines (i.e., those other fax users won't put
your codes at the end of their Subscriber IDs.)
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