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From: sean@dranet.dra.com
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: re: Networks considered harmful
Message-ID: <603.2590bc9a@dranet.dra.com>
Date: 21 Dec 89 17:20:58 GMT
References: <8912210003.AA02652@bel.isi.edu> <8912202301.AA05357@asylum.sf.ca.us>
Organization: Data Research Associates, St. Louis MO
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In article <8912202301.AA05357@asylum.sf.ca.us>, romkey@asylum.sf.ca.us (John Romkey) writes:
> Something I like about email is that I can email a request to SRI-NIC
> and find out WHOIS information and also retrieve RFC's that way. I
> can't currently do this with FAX.

Several companies are now selling "FAX-servers."  The most common work
by you calling a number, select the information and it is FAXed to you.
The technology is similar to the Dial-A-Tape services (Heck, even the
IRS has been using that for a couple of years).  The "inexpensive" ones
are a PC, FAX modem, and Voice/DTMF module.

Maybe SRI-NIC should start providing this service as a way for the
rest of us to get a hold of those dang Postscript RFC's :-).

-- 
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Domain: sean@dranet.dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100

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