Re: ISPs, Induhviduals, and stress

["R. David Murray" <rdmurray@bitdance.com>]

In list.inet-access glennh@netstation.net writes:
>Just had someone call and ask if I could FAX the software to them...

>(Just for a second, I'd thought I could uuencode it to 7 bit, print out all
>1,000,000 pages and let er rip, he could then scan it back in, uudecode it
>and he's off and running.  Somehow I don't think that is what he meant)

What, you didn't get that snail-mail spam about a new FAX technology that
converts a binary file to a barcode-type FAXable output and then scans
the result to turn it back to binary?  FAX a 1MB file in three pages, or
something like that...(this *was* a real product, but obviously it hasn't
caught on...)

--David

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