RE: Last Call: SMTP Service Extension for Content Negotiation to Proposed Standard

At 09:24 +1000 on 07/05/2002, Gerry Sancataldo wrote about RE: Last 
Call: SMTP Service Extension for Content Negot:

>I am currently surveying a number of sites (Australian) that are 
>currently using Internet Fax and preliminary data indicates that 
>over 98% of traffic is to a single recipient.

While not attempting to attack your methodology, limiting the 
"universe" to those using Internet Fax raises in my mind the 
possibility/probability of getting an inaccurate view due to a number 
of considerations.

As to your comment about "Pre Build Broadcast Lists" (which I did not 
quote), again you are restricting your universe. I've seen some types 
of broadcasts (such as some implementations of Fax-On-Demand) where 
the response is delayed for "Batch Processing." In that case the 
Broadcast list (none of whose numbers are known to the sender prior 
to the request) is dynamically build based on the requests and then 
sorted to group all the Faxes to the same Phone Number into one 
transmission (to make maximum usage of the connection) which only 
occurs on a scheduled basis.