Telstra email to fax service

[Tom Worthington]

At 05:23 PM 12/03/97 +1000, Michael Moynihan wrote:

>... no remote-printer server locally for the email
>to fax gateway and that my fax could not be delivered.
>Does anyone know whether this service, till now supplied free by Telstra in
>Australia, has been withdrawn?

As far as I can recall AARnet provided the service for all of Australia when
the Remote Printing Experiment (as it was quaintly called) started. This
lasted only a few days, which was reasonable given the cost of STD calls.
The service was then provided just for Canberra by AARnet and I assume was
then inherited by Telstra.

I noticed it wasn't working about two weeks ago. The service is still
available in Sydney, but I don't think Telstra was the provider there.

This was a very useful service and an interesting social experiment. I was
surprised it worked so well for so long. Perhaps another ISP would like to
volunteer to provide the service in Canberra?

ps: This was the sort of valuable pioneering work which AARnet people did,
with little reward and recognition. Lets put Geoff Huston in for an OA.    :-)



Tom Worthington <tomw@acslink.net.au> President, Australian Computer
Society, GPO Box 446, Canberra ACT 2601 http://www.acslink.net.au/~tomw
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