Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!spool2.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnewsl!psrc From: psrc@cbnewsl.att.com (Paul S. R. Chisholm) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: fax Summary: not from the Internet (but UNIX(R) systems can use AT&T Mail) Message-ID: <1991Jan25.141641.14036@cbnewsl.att.com> Date: 25 Jan 91 14:16:41 GMT References: Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 33 In article jrr@wiffle.techbook.com (John Rosenbaum) writes: >Is there a way to send a fax through compuserve? You can certainly send faxes from CompuServe, or AT&T Mail, or any number of commercial e-mail networks that are reachable from the Internet. However, most of these services will only provide e-mail delivery from the Internet, and block expensive services such as fax, Telex, and paper delivery. The point of a gateway between the Internet and a commercial network is to help the network's customers communicate with a larger audience, and let the Internet users communicate with the network's customers. In all of the cases I know of, the networks are willing to eat the message charges from the Internet to their customers. That's *not* the same as footing the bill for Internet users who want to send faxes to Taiwan or Telex messages to Europe (two examples from my e-mail correspondence). If you want to send faxes from a computer running the UNIX(R) operating system (or any system that runs UUCP), you can register your computer with AT&T Mail. Registration costs (I think) thirty dollars per year. There's no cost to receive messages from the service; registered systems pay the same message delivery charges as on-line users (but don't pay a message creation charge). For more information, contact AT&T EasyLink Service's Customer Assistance Center at 1-800-MAIL-672 (outside the U.S.A., 1-317-352-8504), or atthelp@attmail.com (AT&T Mail !atthelp). Paul S. R. Chisholm, AT&T Bell Laboratories att!mtunq!psrc, psrc@mtunq.att.com, AT&T Mail !psrchisholm I'm not speaking for the company, I'm just speaking my mind. UNIX is a registered trademark of UNIX System Laboratories, Inc., a subsidiary of AT&T.