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Desperately seeking fax spam filter.
We are getting more and more junk faxes, and
hope someone can help with a good fax Spam filter like the type used for junk email. We have a dedicated line for the fax machine. Regards, Frank |
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Desperately seeking fax spam filter.
That would have to be some sort of device that attaches between the phone
line and your Fax machine. It would have to receive the Fax, OCR it, examine the OCR output for questionable content, then either dump everything if its spam, or forward the native Fax file on to your Fax machine if OK; to the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing. Your best bet is probably he http://junkfax.org/ Hal -- Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP- Print /Imaging -- WA7BGX http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!" KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4 Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com "Frank Martin" wrote in message ... We are getting more and more junk faxes, and hope someone can help with a good fax Spam filter like the type used for junk email. We have a dedicated line for the fax machine. Regards, Frank |
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Desperately seeking fax spam filter.
I need a "filter-in" filter, that is I give
my fax number out to clients, and then only these have access, all others are excluded. This works for junk email. Somebody must make a "black box" to fit between the line & the fax machine? This "black box" could be programmed by a computer. After all, the fax machine displays the number of the incoming call. "Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]" wrote in message ... That would have to be some sort of device that attaches between the phone line and your Fax machine. It would have to receive the Fax, OCR it, examine the OCR output for questionable content, then either dump everything if its spam, or forward the native Fax file on to your Fax machine if OK; to the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing. Your best bet is probably he http://junkfax.org/ Hal -- Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP- Print /Imaging -- WA7BGX http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!" KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4 Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com "Frank Martin" wrote in message ... We are getting more and more junk faxes, and hope someone can help with a good fax Spam filter like the type used for junk email. We have a dedicated line for the fax machine. Regards, Frank |
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Desperately seeking fax spam filter.
"Frank Martin" wrote:
I need a "filter-in" filter, that is I give my fax number out to clients, and then only these have access, all others are excluded. This works for junk email. Somebody must make a "black box" to fit between the line & the fax machine? This "black box" could be programmed by a computer. After all, the fax machine displays the number of the incoming call. The number which is displayed by the fax machine is the number which is programmed-in in the setup of the sending machine. So it could be faked -- although I regard the probability that a sending spammer matches one of your clients' IDs as small. But I see another option: If all your clients send from phone lines which issue a CLI (calling line identification), I recommend you look for a telephone device which restricts incoming calls to those whose CLI matches one of the registered ones. I think something like that is available in some small scale PBXs. -- email me: change "nospam" to "w.hennings" Wilfried Hennings c./o. Forschungszentrum (Research Center) Juelich GmbH, MUT http://www.fz-juelich.de/mut/mut_home All opinions mentioned are strictly my own, not my employer's. |
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Desperately seeking fax spam filter.
Frank Martin wrote:
I need a "filter-in" filter, that is I give my fax number out to clients, and then only these have access, all others are excluded. This works for junk email. Somebody must make a "black box" to fit between the line & the fax machine? This "black box" could be programmed by a computer. After all, the fax machine displays the number of the incoming call. "Hal Hostetler [MVP-P/I]" wrote in message ... That would have to be some sort of device that attaches between the phone line and your Fax machine. It would have to receive the Fax, OCR it, examine the OCR output for questionable content, then either dump everything if its spam, or forward the native Fax file on to your Fax machine if OK; to the best of my knowledge, there is no such thing. Your best bet is probably he http://junkfax.org/ Hal -- Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP- Print /Imaging -- WA7BGX http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!" KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4 Still Cadillacin' - www.badnewsbluesband.com "Frank Martin" wrote in message ... We are getting more and more junk faxes, and hope someone can help with a good fax Spam filter like the type used for junk email. We have a dedicated line for the fax machine. Regards, Frank If that's what you want, Google for "inbound call blocker" or just "call blocker." These devices are primarily sold to block unwanted telephone calls, but as far as the devices are concerned, there's no difference between a voice telephone call and a fax call. You need to have Caller ID (from the telco) in order for these things to work. -- Lem MS MVP -- Networking To the moon and back with 64 Kbits of RAM and 512 Kbits of ROM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer |
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