At 11:39 AM 7/3/2002 -0500, COLES, RICHARD J. (JSC-EV) (LM) wrote: >I just wanted to be sure that everyone knew how important FAX is to NASA >(and, I suppose, to other agencies of the Federal government). Right. Folks often do not realize that even Telex is still a critical infrastructure service, for portions of the world. My guess is that we are looking at 10-20 years before fax is truly relegated to a minor role. Fully replacing well-established infrastructures takes a very long time, no matter how quickly a new one emerges. One reason for doing fax over the Internet is for cheaper and faster fax service, but another is to integrate the fax and email communities, as much as is reasonable. (Personally I have a third goal, which is to provide email with a target service level that is more demanding that Internet mail has provided until now and is known to be useful for business; with fax we get that, and we do not need to debate the philosophy of business communications.) d/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:dcrocker@brandenburg.com> Brandenburg InternetWorking <http://www.brandenburg.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850