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7. POLLING
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
What Is Polling?
Polling is the process of retrieving faxes from another fax machine. You
may use your machine to “poll” other machines, or you may ask someone
to poll your machine. The party who polls pays for the cost of the call.
How Does It Work?
First all parties set up their fax machines so that they can accommodate
polling. Then one party leaves documents in the fax machine so that the
other party can call and have the documents sent to them.
When to Use Polling
Use polling to control the cost of who pays for sending a fax.
1. If you want to pay for the cost of the call: Send faxes to other parties as
you normally would, and if another party has documents to send you, ask
if you can poll for them.
2. If you want others to pay for the cost of the call: Ask them to poll your
machine for documents they want, and have them fax any documents
that you want.
* There are some fax machines that will not respond to the polling function.
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