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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  PostScript Versus ASCII
Message-ID: <14@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 89 19:20:09 GMT
References: <8909301233.aa05407@huey.udel.edu> <8910021348.AA26853@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates
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In article <8910021348.AA26853@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> haverty@BBN.COM (Jack Haverty) writes:
>Another idea into the fray:
>
>MCIMail has a capability which allows me to send it a message for paper
>delivery, by running any program on my Macintosh and "Print"ing to a

>might make sense to even offer two qualities of output (QOS bits at
>layer 7!), one for laser-print, and one for FAX (which could be
>delivered to most people directly as well).

Yes, lots of people are working on these types of services. Canada Post has
a Fax/Mail delivery service that will send your message (received by fax or
at a post office) to a remote fax machine or laser printed and hand
delivered.

AT&T Mail has fax delivery (and I think mail delivery as well).

X.400 of course will handle it. It's referred to as a Physical Delivery
Option.

Our fax product has a Unix Mail gateway to allow you to send mail via fax.
Just give an address like ...fax!1-800-555-1234!fred and off it goes.

It would be fairly easy to setup a server to offer these types of services
on the Internet. The hard part would getting someone to fund it. Until we
get secure mail services its very hard to bill back to the originator.

I would suspect that you'll see many sites offerring these services to their
own users, but not allowing remote access.

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