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From: thinman@cup.portal.com (Lance C Norskog)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Fax bitmap server
Message-ID: <32515@cup.portal.com>
Date: 7 Aug 90 04:14:34 GMT
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An unnamed source says that faxes have something called a CSI, limited
to 20 characters, that the sender gives to the receiver.  Usually this
is set to the caller's fax phone number.

If I were setting this up, I would want to maintain a registry of possible
callers just for my own protection, and to be able to control my outgoing
mail flow; so a database of (fax number, real name, network address,
route) tuples would be the handiest method.

I used the word 'unpleasant' because I was worried about the possible
amount of non-scholarly traffic that this service could generate...
bitmaps are big.