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From: emv@a.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,alt.fax
Subject: Re: Mailing to a Fax machine.
Message-ID: <8983@mailgw.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 10 Feb 89 16:55:20 GMT
References: <9688@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: emv@mailgw.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti)
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In article <9688@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> dheller@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Dan Heller) writes:

I just had an interesting idea.  I have no idea how Fax machines
work, but the one in our office sure sounds like a modem to me.
I don't know what the protocol is, but wouldn't it be great if
those things used a standard that was documented somewhere?  And
then we could write great programs so your mail UA could talk to a
fax machine somwhere instead of your typical MTA.

Dan Heller	<island!argv@sun.com>

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Sounds like a good idea, I know some discussion of this has already
gone on in alt.fax.  Anyone care to describe their current ad-hoc
solution?

--Ed

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