fax program?

[Mike McMullin]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:12 -0400, Shawn McCuan wrote:
> I dont understand why people even bother with fax machines anymore...
> We have scanners, printers, email, and internet - why use such a
> horribly slow technology?

  Ever see an ad for a decent job opportunity with a small company that
just has the fax number for submission info? that happens a lot here
locally.  BTW with some of the people saying "Oh, I didn't get your
e-mail.", I can beyond a shadow of a doubt know from my fax logs that
they did get my fax, what they did with it, is their problem.

> I spent over a year at my previous job converting them from their
> ancient dependance on the fax machine. But, even though I got most of
> them using electronic equivelents, they still "had" to use the fax
> machine every once and awhile...and convincing some of the vendors to
> stop sending faxes took months. (even when those businesses HAD online
> solutions.) 

  That does of course answer your question.
 
> On 10/3/07, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote: 
>         hi folks,
>         
>         I am occasionally asked to fax something somewhere, but I
>         don't use this
>         outdated technology anymore...  I'm wondering whether anyone
>         knows of 
>         some kind of service allowing one to send faxes directly from
>         the
>         computer, preferably a free service using Free software that
>         works with
>         ubuntu.  Just looking fora suggestion, I guess.  thanks,
>         
>         matt
>         
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