[AusNOG] Cisco SPA - Fax in Australia

[Jake Anderson]

I have visions of everybody having email2fax and fax2email systems 
whereby office-A will scan2email put in the remote parties fax number at 
which point the fax2email company will notice the other party is also on 
their system, forward the email essentially and bill the customer 25c 
for the privilege of sending an email.

Much the same as all the VoIP systems are going.

If only there were some way of determining if a given number could be 
reached direct rather than over the PSTN....

http://www.enum.com.au/



On 23/04/14 10:18, Tony wrote:
> Which is maddeningly frustrating.
>
> The process in both cases is:
>
> Digitise image
> Send over public network (voip or email)
> Remote party receives image and prints
>
> Yet I can execute a banking transaction by faxing a completed signed 
> form to the appropriate fax number, but I can't scan/email the same 
> form to the same person who would have received the fax anyway. In 
> both cases what the person has received is the same (a digitised copy 
> of a form with my John Hancock on it sent via an unsecure network with 
> no real verification that it actually came from me).
>
> The even more frustrating part is that it's entirely possible the 
> "fax" that I send is received by a fax machine and not actually 
> printed out, but instead turned into a PDF and delivered to someone 
> via email anyway. Or if it is printed out as hard copy, it will quite 
> possibly then be scanned and converted to digital data for 
> storage/archival.
>
> So what is the answer to this problem  ?
>
>
>
> regards,
> Tony.
>