[Asterisk-Users] Get faxed you faxing faxer!

[Gary]

sorry jamie, i didn;t miss the point, i just didn't put in the
smiley...

you might have missed what one of asterisk machines is actually running
on...

p100 was refering to a pentium 100 processor, doing other stuff as well
asterisk... throw a fax at it and would probably limp to computer
heaven !!  (even running linux) ... it runs normally at 75% cpu
utilisation....   :-)

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:52:46 +1000, Jamie Carl wrote:

>Sorry to say this Gary, but I think you're missing the 
>whole point behind Asterisk.  Why merely try and 
>'recreate' what PABXs already do and have been doing for 
>the last quadzillion years.  Asterisk, BY DESIGN, is 
>trying to do, not only the same stuff, but MORE and 
>BETTER.  
>
>So, keeping this in mind, why is it so outrageously 
>rediculous to ask?  If asterisk is MORE than just a PABX, 
>won't that mean it's MORE appealing to users?  
>
>I don't expect anything when it comes to Asterisk.  If a 
>feature works, great, I have a new toy.  If it doesn't, I 
>try and help fix it.  If it's not there, i 'suggest' it. 
> It's all part of the open source process.
>
>Oh, and as for PABXs in australia that support fax, well, 
>Cisco have a nice little full IMS system that does it. 
> But who wants to pay $1,000,000 for a PABX, right?
>
>Jazz
>
>On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:17:35 +1000
>  "Gary" <gary at ausmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>I always have a chuckle when I see this.
>>
>>it probably could if someone sorts it out, but its 
>>reqally starting to
>>expect a lot.
>>
>>I really cant think of any pab system (at least here in 
>>australia)
>>which has a builtin fax.  fax/phones sure, fax on 
>>computers sure, but
>>pab/fax mmmmm, I can just see my p100 sitting at home 
>>trying to deal
>>with faxes and phone calls.....  (shudder......)
>>
>>On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 10:23:05 +1000, Jamie Carl wrote:
>>
>>>All this talk of faxing has started me thinking (this is 
>>>always a bad thing) and I've come up with a question.
>>>
>>>Now, I know Asterisk can detect and route faxes, to a 
>>>'fax' extension and all that.  But can Asterisk be used 
>>>to 
>>>'receive' faxes?  
>>>
>>>I know there was some talk about this just over a year 
>>>ago 
>>>and I'm wondering if anything came of it.  It would be 
>>>nice to be able to receive faxes with asterisk and then 
>>>have them filer through and AGI script and emailed or 
>>>dumped in a directory/database/whatever.
>>>
>>>I mean for me, currently, I have a fax/modem hooked up to 
>>>the same machine asterisk is on, and it get's sent faxes 
>>>via my FXS port.  It would be nice to be able to pull off 
>>>the modem and throw it away. (or auction it on ebay)
>>>  
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Jamie Carl
>>>Jazz Inc.
>>>Email:  me at jazz-inc.net
>>>Web:    www.jazz-inc.net
>>>Phone:  +61-414-365-466
>>>Jabber: jazz at netmindz.net
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>Regards,
>
>Jamie Carl
>Jazz Inc.
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