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In article <1ij7i1INNl3i@csc2.anu.edu.au>, pte900@jatz.aarnet.edu.au (Peter
Elford) wrote:
> 
> Yes, it would be *easy* to make this a national facility, allowing FAXes
> to be sent nationally around Australia for the cost of a local call. It
> only requires money to enable resources to be brought to bear to write
> up a requirements documents, contract out/appoint someont to do the work,
> buy additional UNIX systems and/or copies of the Osiris Software and ZAP!.
> 
> What I have done so far is in-my-spare-time work for the use of Geoff and
> I, and the AVCC. It is not a general access facility.
> 
Oh well, thank you Peter. We really should try to avoid a situation in
which various outfits set up their own solutions. There should be a
standardisation of the ways in which address formats are constructed,
circumstances and ways for refusing to send, and many other aspects, not to
mention the re-invent the wheel problem. The one I am particularly
interested in is transmission to internal fax numbers. That incurs no
Telecom charge of course, so we would not need any protection other than
refusal to transmit to numbers other than internal (my Unit has just
installed a fax modem on a Mac so we can take fax submissions of external
student assignments).

Would the project which Peter mentions be feasible if limited to a smaller
task, such as a fax gateway for internal (free) calls only, for Unix only?
Just a national solution with certain standardisations, which individual
institutions could implement off the shelf if they wanted to, not a
national facility?

Dr Roger Atkinson
Acting Director of External Studies, External Studies Unit,
Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150.
Voice +61 9 360 2240 fax +61 9 310 4929  atkinson@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au