Providing facsimile communications in a system wherein an originating facsimile terminal equipment connects to an intermediate digital network of unknown and unpredictable delay via an originating facsimile interface unit and wherein a destination FTE connects to the network via a destination FIU. For playing purposes, the playing cubes are divided into 3 groups: 27 scoring cubes, 54 blank cubes, and 1 pilot cube. The water permeability zone has a pore size of at least 100 percent greater than the pore size of the bubble barrier zone, and has a thickness of greater than 75 percent of the shortest distance between the opposed contact surfaces of the plate. The apparatus determines whether the description format for each of the extracted candidates matches the description format for the sender area stored in the database.