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line-height: 15px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 5px; font-family: arial; line-height: 15px; "></DIV></TD></TR><TR style="font: 10px arial,sans-serif; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; "><TD style="padding-top: 5px; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; "></TD><TD align="right" style="padding-top: 5px; font-family: arial; font-size: 10px; text-align: -khtml-right; "></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 6, 2007, at 8:39 AM, Joe Acquisto wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">There seem to have been many discussions about this, so sorry if this is boring.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Can one connect a "standard" fax machine (or fax modem) to an analog port on a TDM400p (as if it were an analog phone, say) and expect it to work reliably?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For sending, that is.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Detecting and "routing" the call is another subject (for me).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Seems it "should", but does not.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>At least not for me.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">joe a.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; 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