Re: [Thinkpad] [TP-almost on topic] Faxes

Hello,

Have you considered using a product like Asterisk <http://www.asterisk.org/>
to set up a soft PBX on a ThinkPad [or other, lesser computer :)] to function
as a fax/voice discrimator? Although normally used for such things as
connecting PSTN (publicly-switched telphone network) connections to VoIP
phones on a network, it should be capable of redirecting or saving faxes.

A good source of information about VoIP is <http://www.voip-info.org/>.

No affiliation, other than working at a VoIP equipment manufacturer at a
previous job (not Asterisk-based, though).

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

At 04:41 PM 3/22/2006, you wrote:
>Message: 5
>Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:13:32 -0600
>From: "David Ross" <ross@math.hawaii.edu>
>Subject: [Thinkpad] [TP-almost on topic] Faxes
>To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
>Message-ID: <007c01c64ded$18b01a60$0301a8c0@SIERPINSKI>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
>This all reminds me of a question I have had for years, which is
>actually on-topic. My office phone number is very close to that of an
>athletics department FAX machine, and they love their FAXes over there,
>and aren't so good with numbers. As a result, I get rather a lot of
>attempted FAX calls. I would like to be able to actually receive these
>faxes, but otherwise just use my phone as a phone, and do this without
>buying a FAX machine or other new hardware. Is there any
>laptop/software solution that can intercept a call, ascertain if it is a
>fax, if so receive the fax, otherwise just pass the call on to the
>phone?
>
>David

[...snip...]

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