[P1] Faxing in OSX

[Jack Rodgers]

On Thursday, May 8, 2003, at 09:34  AM, Mike Beede wrote:

> I think we can accept for the purposes of discussion
> that he *has* a standalone fax, and that he wants to
> use his Mac for faxing instead.

You can fax from a Powerbook from anywhere you can find an available 
phone jack.

You can only pickup a fax sent to a phone number while you are 
connected to its phone jack.

You cannot pickup faxes aimed at a phone number from another phone 
number.

Faxes aren't sent like email, although there are probably services 
where you can have faxes sent and then download faxes like you download 
email or ftp.

If your Powerbook isn't connected to the phone line where the fax is 
being sent, the sender gets a failure and may or may not retry later. 
However, if you are away 8 hours there is a possibility the fax will 
never get sent or received. If this is a bad thing, then a permanent 
installed fax machine is required.

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Why is it that the government can determine that a spam fax is worth a 
$500 penalty payble by the sender to the recipient but takes no stand 
on email spam?

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