eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) (12/20/89)
702WFG@SCRVMSYS.BITNET (bill gunshannon) writes: >I don't think you read my whole posting. I can send Email from PC to PC >using the exact same Phone system that FAXers use. The software is easier >to set up than WordPerfect and the software is even FREE!!! > >I still say it is all PR. i imagine that we did read your whole posting, bill. the word "tirade" came to mind. not that i don't tie a good rade myself, ok? your complaint seems to be with 'commercialization' of fax, rather than the technology itself. there are problems with the technology, such as the lack of a standard to specify the recipient of the (group 3) fax. but commercialization is not necessarily a problem. quite the opposite... fax is not any sort of 'threat' to email as a technology. instead, the combination of the two might create more useful technology and a stronger market for both email AND fax! -- -- Steve Elias ; eli@spdcc.com ; 6179325598 ; 5086717556 ; { *disclaimer(); }
eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) (12/20/89)
followups to alt.fax. by the way, does anyone else support the creation of comp.fax ? emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: >I know there's an RFC that addresses a standard format for storing an >ascii representation of fax images written back in the olden days when >the US Post Office was going to offer the service. the US post office is currently offering fax service at some northeast post offices. they rent space to a company which put together "fax kiosks" designed for public use. (has anyone seen one of these beasties, yet?)
"Mitchell_B._Erblich.ESAE"@XEROX.COM (12/22/89)
Steve Elias, the US post office is currently offering fax service at some northeast post offices. they rent space to a company which put together "fax kiosks" designed for public use. (has anyone seen one of these beasties, yet?) YEP, I used one in South Florida, in Plantation near Ft. Lauderdale. Mitch
bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) (12/24/89)
> the US post office is currently offering fax service at > some northeast post offices. they rent space to a company > which put together "fax kiosks" designed for public use. > > (has anyone seen one of these beasties, yet?) There's one here in the Brookline Post Office. It looked expensive (I think $15?) You can find fax-o-matics in most any motel lobby and many copy shops, I'd be surprised if this is a big hit for the P.O. -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die, Purveyors to the Trade | bzs@world.std.com 1330 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02146, (617) 739-0202 | {xylogics,uunet}world!bzs