Hi, One of Asterisk features is fax2mail. As a good share of incoming faxes can be considered as advertising spam, does it make sense to use email anti-spam features to filter them ? I can't foresee any practical way to do so but I would be very curious to discuss about it. Regards -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20071211/b8f268fa/attachment.htm
John Beaman Telecom Specialist II Voice Telecommunications Services Department. Good Samaritan National Campus 605-362-3331>>> oza-4h07 at myamail.com 12/11/2007 11:23:29 AM >>>Hi, One of Asterisk features is fax2mail. As a good share of incoming faxes can be considered as advertising spam, does it make sense to use email anti-spam features to filter them ? I can't foresee any practical way to do so but I would be very curious to discuss about it. Regards I do not believe this is possible. Email spam filters use rules to filter on the text of the email message, while a fax is scanned, transmitted and received as a graphic image.
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:23:29PM +0100, Olivier wrote:> Hi, > > One of Asterisk features is fax2mail. > > As a good share of incoming faxes can be considered as advertising spam, > does it make sense to use email anti-spam features to filter them ? > I can't foresee any practical way to do so but I would be very curious to > discuss about it.A useful search phrase might be "image spam". http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=image+spam Returns 10 hits. Maybe one or two of them will actually be useful. There are also some details in the wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_spam but it is focused on the HTML-mail aspects of the issue. -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:guest at local.xorcom.com/tzafrir