Steve Elias <eli@pws.bull.com> (07/21/90)
This is a call for discussion for a newsgroup called "comp.dcom.fax",
or just comp.fax. There is currently an "alt.fax" newsgroup, but it's
my humble homey opinion that fax technology is real enough and
interesting enough to warrant a "real" technical newsgroup. Fax
technology involves modems, graphics, printing, bus interfaces, serial
port interfaces, email, and "fax over internet", etcetera. I think
that comp.fax might be a better idea than comp.dcom.fax, since there
are some fax issues which have zero to do with datacomm, such as
graphics-ish stuff like dithering and aliasing, and tcp-ish stuff like
email2fax and fax2email.
Perhaps these issues can be discussed individually in the "most
relevant" newsgroup for each area listed above, and perhaps the
alt.fax group does have enough "propagation" such that it will do the
job. But if a comp.fax group would include more people in the
discussions, I think it's worth considering.
What do you think? Please follow up to news.groups.
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