jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley) (01/23/91)
In article <RTN6V1w163w@wiffle.techbook.com> jrr@wiffle.techbook.com (john rosenbaum) writes: >Is there a way to send a fax through compuserve? Yes. I should really stop answering at this point, because if you go to Compuserve's MAIL program, there's extensive HELP available, which spells out what you need to do. Why ask here anyways? --- Jean-Pierre Radley NYC Public Unix jpr@jpradley.jpr.com CIS: 72160,1341
psrc@cbnewsl.att.com (Paul S. R. Chisholm) (01/25/91)
In article <RTN6V1w163w@wiffle.techbook.com> jrr@wiffle.techbook.com (John Rosenbaum) writes: >Is there a way to send a fax through compuserve? You can certainly send faxes from CompuServe, or AT&T Mail, or any number of commercial e-mail networks that are reachable from the Internet. However, most of these services will only provide e-mail delivery from the Internet, and block expensive services such as fax, Telex, and paper delivery. The point of a gateway between the Internet and a commercial network is to help the network's customers communicate with a larger audience, and let the Internet users communicate with the network's customers. In all of the cases I know of, the networks are willing to eat the message charges from the Internet to their customers. That's *not* the same as footing the bill for Internet users who want to send faxes to Taiwan or Telex messages to Europe (two examples from my e-mail correspondence). If you want to send faxes from a computer running the UNIX(R) operating system (or any system that runs UUCP), you can register your computer with AT&T Mail. Registration costs (I think) thirty dollars per year. There's no cost to receive messages from the service; registered systems pay the same message delivery charges as on-line users (but don't pay a message creation charge). For more information, contact AT&T EasyLink Service's Customer Assistance Center at 1-800-MAIL-672 (outside the U.S.A., 1-317-352-8504), or atthelp@attmail.com (AT&T Mail !atthelp). Paul S. R. Chisholm, AT&T Bell Laboratories att!mtunq!psrc, psrc@mtunq.att.com, AT&T Mail !psrchisholm I'm not speaking for the company, I'm just speaking my mind. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc., a subsidiary of AT&T.