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Re: [hylafax-users] Iternet-Fax WG Anyone?



On 2004.08.04 10:50 Matt wrote:

 Now, call me thicko if you will, but what is, in practicallity, the
difference between either sending someone an email with pdf attached,
or
using mail to fax, compared to this method?

Nobody said that the recipient accepted or wanted the image via e-mail. I don't pretend to understand the many reasons why someone may wish to communicate via fax rather than e-mail, but there are reasons, and among them are the ease of delivery of copies of hand-edited/signed/written documents.


faxmail uses a proprietary method to pass information between the sender and the relay (HylaFAX).

This method (T.37) uses a standardized method that appears to be fairly widely used by manufacturers. Thus someone can go out and purchase one of these devices and use it as a hardware HylaFAX client: getting the ease-of-use of the fax machine coupled with the features in HylaFAX.

 Unless I'm really in brain dead mode, (again), today, this seems to
be a
fancier version of faxmail, or am I missing the obvious?

Not just "fancier" but "supported". You can't go buy a scanner that will deliver the scan by e-mail in a manner that faxmail will accept.


Lee.

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