[aklug] Re: Faxing and cell phones

Lol, one reason for vsifaxs dev of lcr was to route if possible via ip
as less costly than wending ones way through the forest otherwise.
Since we can print to a printer via ip anywhere already, what is the
value added by reversing course as it were - and I am not arguing
against you so much as playing the interlocutor (which I suppose is an
answer in part to one of your two questions). Well I a couple dozen
hoodlums to attend to and must off.... Will follow up later but it is
too fina a day to spend anymore of it pecking at this thing;

On Aug 20, 2009, at 4:37 PM, "Shane R. Spencer" <shane@bogomip.com>
wrote:

> Re: Up coming market for fax.
>
> I have a vision of using a domain I own. OpenDial.org to store
> internatinol PSTN information as well as information similar to e164.org
> (relating a telephone number to various services through DNS/HTTP/
> etc..). I believe standardizing several protocols for fax to fax on
> top of existing protocols (email, efax (the protocol not the
> service), http, T.38 (yuck), etc...) will enable us to all have what
> we want. Scan a document and print it half way across the world
> with a routing number. This idea has a lot of potential and I hope
> to find extra persons to help get it going.
>
> - Shane
>
> Marc Grober wrote:
>> One of the things that made the vsifax product so nice was the
>> ability to do lcr and to choose formats based on end user demand
>> simply ( of course as well as file translation services ), but as
>> Shane suggests that can all be done with open software, though I
>> can't see a real up and coming market for fax...
>> On Aug 20, 2009, at 4:05 PM, "Shane R. Spencer"
>> <shane@bogomip.com> wrote:
>>> DID are numbers mapped to a specific PSTN service.. most commonly
>>> PRI or other switched PSTN
>>> networks. They are numbers that are allocated to your telephone
>>> company that are handed out on
>>> demand to clients that require them. ACS provides a block of 100
>>> DID to each PRI circuit, or at
>>> least that is the case for now.
>>>
>>> - Shane
>>>
>>> Jim Gribbin wrote:
>>>> What exactly do you mean by DIDs for the local area. Are these
>>>> voip #s
>>>> that could be pointed somewhere?
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 23:33 -0800, Shane Spencer wrote:
>>>>> I can help with that btw. I'd love to drum up some interest
>>>>> too. One
>>>>> of my goals @ work is to figure out what to do with all the DIDs
>>>>> for
>>>>> Anchorage that I have sitting around :) I could easily hand
>>>>> people
>>>>> hylafax/avantfax accounts.
>>>>>
>>>>> I prodded Google to see if they wanted any for their GV
>>>>> product. I'm
>>>>> not sure if that product speaks fax yet.
>>>>>
>>>>> - Shane
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Jim
>>>>> Gribbin<jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Personally, I avoid faxes whenever possible. You just can't do
>>>>>> Real
>>>>>> Estate without one though. At least, not yet. You start
>>>>>> dealing with
>>>>>> these corporations and they still demand you send and receive
>>>>>> faxes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The only reason I haven't set up with a fax service is that I
>>>>>> can't get
>>>>>> an Alaska phone # on any of then yet. At least not the last
>>>>>> time I
>>>>>> checked.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At typical faxed Real Estate contract tends to run 18 pages. I
>>>>>> don't
>>>>>> think its fair to ask people to send that many pages a couple
>>>>>> of times
>>>>>> per deal long distance. Last time I ran the numbers, the best
>>>>>> I could
>>>>>> come up with long distance was just over $ 0.25 /page plus a
>>>>>> monthly
>>>>>> fee.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't suppose AT&T will give people some voip #'s to go
>>>>>> along with
>>>>>> their wireless internet service? Ala - Clearwire. With that
>>>>>> combination,
>>>>>> I'd be tempted to set up my own fax server.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Clearwire, with their voip service, gives you a Linksys 2102
>>>>>> FXS. Or was
>>>>>> it FXO? I'm always getting them mixed up.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> At any rate, the 2102 is advertised as being able to handle fax
>>>>>> protocols, but I haven't gotten around to trying mine for that
>>>>>> as yet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jim G
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 14:36 -0800, barsalou wrote:
>>>>>>> Are any of you using faxing services because all you have is
>>>>>>> a cell phone?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> If not, what other solutions are folks using when you want to
>>>>>>> receive
>>>>>>> or send a fax?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mike B.
>>>>>>>
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