On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 19:19:44 -0930, Kevin JCJD Symons wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jun 2003 00:00:22 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 22:59:07 -0300, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > Is this service available for non-USA area users and recipients? According to my understanding of how the system works, the service is available for use by both USA and non-USA senders. For the fax recipients I believe it works only for fax machines located in the area codes listed at the service's web site. Some countries other than the US might have services similar to the US TPC sendfax system. It would be quite feasible to implement such a system anywhere in the world where such a system could pay for itself from the fees for the advertising it generates. Here is how the system works according to my understanding: The sender prepares and sends an email message to a "properly formatted" email address. (The web page explains how to "properly format" the recipient email address as "[EMAIL PROTECTED] machine_ phone_number") The sender may send his email message as ascii or as a base64 encoded TIFF image. The system will not forward a message from a sender whose supplied "From:" email address is not valid. The "properly formatted" email destination address is really just an alias for the email address of a participating business located in an area relatively local to the recipient fax machine. The computer belonging to the participating business automatically converts the email to a fax and prepends a cover sheet which includes an advertising message from the participating business. Then the computer belonging to the participating business relays the converted email message as a fax to the recipient's fax machine. What the system really does is to convert an email to a fax. Any group of folks located in many various countries throughout the world could establish their very own network to do something very similar. They wouldn't even have to generate any advertising if they didn't want to generate any free money by providing their services for free. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
