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From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Fax over tcp/ip
Message-ID: <707@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 89 20:28:31 GMT
Reply-To: eli@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Elias)
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>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).  

	John's generalization about "the people who implement fax" is 
	clearly incorrect.  computerfax under actual operating systems
	is available.  and some computerfax designers are thinking about
	larger issues, as well as real computers!




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