Screening for Fax Calls with Panther?

Peter Brodsky asks: "Panther advertises faxing as one of its cool, new features. If you're like me, and you have one land line, which you use for DSL and voice, you don't want to hook up a fax machine that will answer after X rings, because if after X rings it picks up and starts beeeep, beeep, bleeeeping at you, you cut yourself off from voice mail... which is programmed to pick up after Y rings. Is there a way to make your Panther box 'screen' for fax calls before it picks up?"

Out of style, perhaps...

[cjhuitt]

But you could do it the "old fashioned" way, which is what I'm planning on doing. If somebody needs to send me a fax, they can call me first and tell me. Then, I'll let the computer answer it.

Unfortunately, Panther (with this feature) came out just _after_ I had finished the process of buying a home. (For anyone who's never gone through the process, there was a large amount of faxing to be done, between about 4 different parties.) It would have made some things much simpler, instead of my wife using the one at her job, and needing to hop down to the office 2 floors below her to receive an incoming fax.

I don't really see the problem.

[Mordant]

If you just set your Mac running Panther to answer all your incoming calls with its FAX-modem, won't that have the effect of screening out FAX calls, along with bill-collectors, telemarketers, annoying family-members, etc.? ;>

Stupid facts

[Anonymous Coward]

You and your damn facts have stopped this thread cold. I hope you're happy.