adaptive answering

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

adaptive answering

   <communications> A feature which allows a {faxmodem} to answer
   the telephone and decide whether the incoming call is a fax or
   data call.  Most {Class 1} faxmodems do this.  The
   {U.S. Robotics} Class 1 implementation however seems not to do
   it, it must be set to answer as either one or the other.

   (1995-03-16)