[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk - fax - spandsp

[Steve Underwood]

Lee Howard wrote:

>On Tue, 17 May 2005, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
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>>Side questions about spandsp... Is it possible to print the fax  
>>header like what most faxes do (that is: who is sending the fax, how  
>>many pages are included etc...) I'm not talking about printing  
>>callerid, often I receive fax from the US (and there's no CallerID  
>>being displayed then) but my fax machine can print the fax header  
>>very well.
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>The "header" here is sometimes called a "tagline".  It's part of the image 
>that the fax sender transmits.  If the coverpage does not contain this 
>information then the tagline, in the USA, is required to have the date 
>and the fax number of the sender.  This is an FCC rule, and a sender can 
>get fined for not having them.
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In Germany, a computer generated FAX must contain something like **CCT** 
in its header line.

There are probably a number of rules like this around the world. All of 
them are stupid, as they are based on such a narrow vision of what these 
machines are doing.

Regards,
Steve