Facsimile apparatus for receiving facsimile transmission selectively

A facsimile apparatus for transmitting and/or receiving image data to and from another facsimile apparatus in another station, comprising:

• communication control means connected with a communication line for establishing a connection with another station via the communication line, said communication control means sending station identification data to a calling station for identifying own station when a call is received from the calling station, said communication control means further receiving station identification data from a called station, when the facsimile apparatus has made a call to the called station, for identifying the called station;
• image data transmission and reception means for transmitting image data to the called station via the communication control means when a call is made to the called station and for receiving image data from the calling station via the communication control means when a call is received from the called station;
• image reading means for reading an image and producing the image data corresponding to the image, said image reading means transferring the image data to the image data transmission and reception means for transmission to the called station;
• image recording means supplied with the image data received from the calling station from the image data transmission and reception means for recording the image data on a recording sheet as a reproduced image;
• memory means for storing the station identification data of selected stations;
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• memory control means for controlling the memory means such that, when a call is made to a called station, the station identification data that is returned from the called station is stored in the memory means as one of the station identification data of the selected stations;
• wherein said communication control means rejects reception of the image data transmitted from the calling station when the calling station is not included in a list of stations stored the memory means.