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

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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