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From: karn@ka9q.bellcore.com (Phil Karn)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: fax over tcp/ip.
Message-ID: <17890@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 15 Oct 89 22:19:47 GMT
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In article <254@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> eli@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
>	the reliable method is to use DID phone lines and DID capable 
>	PC-fax cards in the fax2email server PCs. [..]

Yes, this technique works, but it sure has an appetite for telephone
numbers!  Bellcore is the entity charged with the administration of the
North American Numbering Plan; they're the ones who assign new area codes as
needed to meet demand for telephone numbers. Given the rate at which area
codes have been splitting over the past few years (leaving only a handful of
unused codes) I wouldn't be surprised to see some eyebrows raised in certain
circles around here at yet another proposed large-scale consumer of
telephone numbers. Particularly since they're only needed to overcome a
limitation of the existing G3 FAX protocol (i.e., the inability to specify a
recipient.)

In any event, I suspect the skyrocketing demand for cellular phones, pocket
pagers, (real) fax machines and computer modem lines are all going to force
*some* sort of resolution to the crisis in the next few years...

Phil