[asterisk-users] Re: fax eater

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 06:06:40AM -0800, Lee Howard wrote:
> James Harper wrote:
> >I always wished that a fax machine could detect someone yelling "F**K
> >OFF" down the phone line, and register that it probably isn't a fax
> >machine at the other end :)
> 
> They can.  For example a fax modem report of "no carrier detected" 
> means, if you trust the modem, exactly that:  we called and didn't find 
> a fax machine on the other end.

Alas, for some reason, 30 years on, faxmodem chipsets seem
fundamentally incapable of detecting busy signals, which modems have
done since Bell 103J...

Cheers,
-- jra
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