[NTLUG:Discuss] NTLUG: Call for Presentations

[cbbrowne@godel.brownes.org]

On Sun, 22 Aug 1999 21:03:53 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
Brian Koontz <briank at hex.net>  said:
> Chris Cox wrote:
> 
> >    5. Faxing from home: I don't think we've had anyone do a presentation
> >       on this.
> 
> So what kind of coverage is expected for a topic such as this?  I
> routinely fax from the house, using mtekscan, faxspool, and
> mingetty+fax.  But hardly worth a presentation over; the scanner side
> was the trickiest thing to get set up.  Broad coverage of other faxing
> schemes, such as Hylafax?  Should scanner set-up be a part of the
> presentation?  Should this discussion be off-line?

Broad coverage would *definitely* be valuable; I fielded a couple of
questions on Saturday from people that were asking about faxing.  

An issue that often comes up is a need for the (classical)
interoperability where it is desired to have a "fax server" that might run
on Linux that would be accessible for use by a bunch of Windows machines.

The last time I looked at Hylafax (which was in the days when it was
called "FlexFax;" I may have been the one that told them that they needed
to consider a name change due to a trademark conflict...  I do know that
I bounced a message to their mailing list; I do not know if it was what
resulted in the name change...), it had a pretty beta client for Win16;
I gather that there's now something more sophisticated for Win32.

It may thereby be worthwhile to have details directed towards your
mingetty+fax version; it would definitely be wise to add to this
some broad material that would include things like HylaFAX and efax.

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