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Re: AARNet fax gateway

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From: Conan the System Operator
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:35
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>>>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

>Do you mean a dozen or so well placed machines would cover 90% of possible
>fax machines for a locally priced call?

We could have one common e-mail address, and route it to the correct fax
from there. The major destinations in Aus would be Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne
Adelaide and Perth. That would cover a good 80% of the faxes.

>>You could put the whole thing together for about $1000 (including all hard-
>>ware and software).

>There is also a postscript interpreter available for the Amiga, along with
>a vast range of other PD graphic format converters. Together with AmigaDOS
>v2+ and AREXX scripting, t'would be a breaze to set up.

It would also be posible to use the MINE standards to include pictuers in
the out going faxes. Might even be able to get them back in with MINE bit
maps as well (though thats pushing it).


Dave
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Subject: Re: AARNet fax gateway
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