Brother INTELLIFAX 600 - Manual (Page 93)

POLLING
11. POLLING
What Is Polling?
During normal fax transmission, you call up another fax
machine and send a fax. In this case you pay for the cost of the
call, just as when you make a normal voice telephone call.
Conversely, when someone calls up your fax machine and
sends you a fax, they pay for the cost of the call.
Polling reverses this procedure. To poll another fax machine,
you call it up, and request it to send you a fax which has been
left in the document feeder. You pay for the cost of the call
and receive a document. Conversely, you may leave a
document in your fax machine and allow another fax machine
to call up and poll for it. This is being polled.
Why Is Polling Used?
You may want someone to send you a long document, but they
may not wish to pay for the cost of the call. This problem may
be solved if they agree to leave the document in their fax
machine so that you can call them up and poll for it.
Polling may be used by a head office to gather in information
such as orders and sales statistics from home-based sales
people. They may have difficulty sending in a fax if the head
office fax machine is busy, but head office can probably call
up their home number with less difficulty. It may also be
preferable for head office to bear the cost of the call.
Polling can also be used to take advantage of differences in
call charges depending on the place from which the call is
initiated.
Secure Polling
Once you leave a document in your fax machine to be polled,
anyone can call up and poll for that document. To prevent this,
you can use secure polling. This simply means that you agree,
in advance, a four digit password with the caller who is going
to poll for your document. When they call, they must key in
the password before they can poll for the document.
Please note the called side’s machine should be a Brother
machine.
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