[asterisk-users] Re: fax eater

[Martin Joseph]

On 2006-11-02 20:57:28 -0800, "James Harper" 
<james.harper at bendigoit.com.au> said:

> We have a 100 number indial range and every so often get fax calls on
> our voice numbers (our fax number isn't in the 100 number range). If you
> just hang up the sending fax will often try a few times before finally
> giving up.
> 
> Our outgoing fax is connected to the PBX (not asterisk), and we can do a
> blind transfer to that which will print it out, but right now the fax is
> printing a misdialled fax and it's up to about 3 meters long and still
> going.
> 
> I have an asterisk server plumbed into the PBX via an ISDN trunk, so I'm
> thinking that if I could map an extension to that which would just 'eat'
> any fax we transfer to it, it would save some paper. Any fax coming in
> on the 100 number range isn't something we want anyway.
> 
> Anyone done this before?
Won't they keep sending them if they seem to be received?

Marty