[comp.mail.misc] Mailing to a Fax machine.

dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Heller) (02/10/89)

I just had an interesting idea.  I have no idea how Fax machines
work, but the one in our office sure sounds like a modem to me.
I don't know what the protocol is, but wouldn't it be great if
those things used a standard that was documented somewhere?  And
then we could write great programs so your mail UA could talk to a
fax machine somwhere instead of your typical MTA.

Dan Heller	<island!argv@sun.com>

emv@a.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) (02/11/89)

In article <9688@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Heller) writes:

I just had an interesting idea.  I have no idea how Fax machines
work, but the one in our office sure sounds like a modem to me.
I don't know what the protocol is, but wouldn't it be great if
those things used a standard that was documented somewhere?  And
then we could write great programs so your mail UA could talk to a
fax machine somwhere instead of your typical MTA.

Dan Heller	<island!argv@sun.com>

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Sounds like a good idea, I know some discussion of this has already
gone on in alt.fax.  Anyone care to describe their current ad-hoc
solution?

--Ed

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