<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Oct 24, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Wilton Helm wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">I've been following this thread and trying to sort out what is wanted, what is available, and why. Comments to the following would be appreciated and might be useful to others.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">1. Why would anyone originate a FAX via VoIP? If it has to go through a bunch of translation steps at both ends, it would seem better to simply scan the document (assuming it isn't in electronic form to begin with) and attach it to an E-Mail.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">2. Why would anyone terminate a FAX call coming through Asterisk in a FAX machine? Isn't there a way to capture it electronically? If so, it seems that putting the electronic documents in a queue where people can open them, save them, and if they wish, print them would be much more useful (and planet friendly, since a lot aren't worth putting on paper).</font></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div>I can answer both of those with a single point. We just switched (entirely) to Asterisk a few weeks ago. We looked, very briefly, at various ways to get rid of the physical, analog, fax machines. They all ended with the answer "People can't figure out e-mail as it is, they aren't going to figure out how to fax via e-mail.".</div><div><br></div><div>What we need is a pure VoIP fax machine.</div><div><br></div><div>Daniel</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Wilton</font></div></div></span></blockquote></div></body></html>