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From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Fax over tcp/ip
Message-ID: <288@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 19 Oct 89 15:20:28 GMT
Reply-To: eli@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
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In article <8734@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>
>Clearly what we want on the Internet is more like what computer fax
>over phone lines should be doing (except that the designers of fax
>didn't think about extensibility, and the people who implement it are
>too busy (hacking slimy binary MSDOS software) to support real
>computers or consider the larger issues).  

	i won't argue with you regarding the slimosity of DOS...

	but you are wrong that nobody is worrying about supporting
	real computers and addressing the larger issues.  these
	things are happening at MANY companies out there.  nobody
	appears to have announced anything yet, though.  


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