Re: [hylafax-users] route incoming faxes

[Lee Howard <faxguy@howardsilvan.com>]

On 2002.07.15 09:57 Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 05:27:41PM -0700, Lee Howard wrote:
> > At 08:34 PM 11/13/01 -0500, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > >It's called subaddressing, and I don't remember how it works except to
> > >say that I don't think HF supports it.
> >
> > Actually, it does... at least nowadays.  faxrcvd isn't ideal for using
> it,
> > but as I've said, that's an easy hack until we get it CVSed.
> 
> Indeed.  To folo on your other wrap message, I've known for some time
> what it could *do*, it was just that I wasn't aware that *anyone's* fax
> machine's allow you to specify it.  Not even the expensive ones...

I know that the Panafax DX-1000 supports it incoming but not outgoing.  I 
suspect there will be many others like that, and I suspect that many will 
also support outgoing subaddressing, too.  But, I'm sure there will be a 
lot of machines that don't.

I think we're more concerned about people sending a HylaFAX server a 
subaddress and for us to be able to route it.  I'd think that the actual 
number of fax machines out ther that support subaddressing and the actual 
number of people who know how to use subaddressing will make the 
application of this quite minimal except for HylaFAX-to-HylaFAX 
inter-corporate communications.  The rest of us will still have to have a 
human FaxMaster to route incoming faxes unless we fork out the cash for a 
DID or line&modem-per-recipient environment.

It wouldn't surprise me, though, that if the entire HylaFAX userbase 
started requesting subaddressing support from others, that within a couple 
years most newly built systems would support it.  It's a dandy feature.  I 
think that it was part of T.32, and so as with other T.32 features, we're 
only now seeing them to begin surfacing.

Lee.

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