Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "Fred E.J. Linton" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: TDD Long Distance Discount Message-ID: <8464@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 31 May 90 06:20:53 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 25 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 400, Message 5 of 6 In <8374@accuvax.nwu.edu> gnu@toad.com (John Gilmore) writes: > Why isn't there a free relay service for email users to send to and > receive from fax machines? ... Or howabout a > Fax-to-voice service for the blind? It's not _quite_ free, but darned close: -- both AT&T Mail and MCI Mail certainly _send_ e-mail _to_ fax machines, at very nominal charges (and at least one of these outfits will also send e-mail to a teleprinter). Unconfirmed rumors (who knows, maybe they're even unwarranted :-) ) suggest they may _eventually_ serve as fax receiver/forwarders for their customers, as well, forwarding fax printout via USPS (this, however, is not yet an announced service). Not Fax-to-voice but e-mail-to-voice is a current offering at least of AT&T Mail (available, though I've never used it, from any TT phone in the US, maybe elsewhere -- 800 number and keypad overlay were provided with AT&T Mail's new customer documentation package when I joined up). Fred <414-2427@mcimail.com>