thinman@cup.portal.com (Lance C Norskog) (08/06/90)
I have a really unpleasant idea: what if someone rigged up the fax modem on their computer so that anybody could fax them a picture, and get e-mailed back a digitized image? I supposed you would want to use the PPM or GIF format, uuencoded. I still can't figure out how to get the return e-mail address automatically, though...
thinman@cup.portal.com (Lance C Norskog) (08/07/90)
An unnamed source says that faxes have something called a CSI, limited to 20 characters, that the sender gives to the receiver. Usually this is set to the caller's fax phone number. If I were setting this up, I would want to maintain a registry of possible callers just for my own protection, and to be able to control my outgoing mail flow; so a database of (fax number, real name, network address, route) tuples would be the handiest method. I used the word 'unpleasant' because I was worried about the possible amount of non-scholarly traffic that this service could generate... bitmaps are big.
roger@hpnmdla.HP.COM (Roger Petersen) (08/08/90)
In comp.windows.x, thinman@cup.portal.com (Lance C Norskog) writes: > bitmaps are big. GIFmaps are rather reasonable in size, however. Excellent compression.