On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 06:06:40AM -0800, Lee Howard wrote: > James Harper wrote: > >I always wished that a fax machine could detect someone yelling "F**K > >OFF" down the phone line, and register that it probably isn't a fax > >machine at the other end :) > > They can. For example a fax modem report of "no carrier detected" > means, if you trust the modem, exactly that: we called and didn't find > a fax machine on the other end.
Alas, for some reason, 30 years on, faxmodem chipsets seem fundamentally incapable of detecting busy signals, which modems have done since Bell 103J... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "That's women for you; you divorce them, and 10 years later, they stop having sex with you." -- Jennifer Crusie; _Fast_Women_ _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
