[BC] Fax software

[Robert Meuser]

Get the office of 40 (or 50) year olds to learn how to do computer  fax. Let the 
20 or 30 somethings make them look foolish.  There is no reason in today's world 
to need a hardcore fax machine with it's dedicated phone line.

I no longer do business by fax at all. If asked for a fax number I kind of laugh 
  and say don't have one, got rid of it and here's my email address, just send 
an attachment.

R

Tom Taggart wrote:
> Getting tired of the HP racket.  Had to replace our old carbon-based fax 
> &  all I could find localy is various HP machines which are ink jet  
> printers.  The one I got has cartridge life measured in weeks.
> 
> I have the phone lines to rig this machine for send only & use fax  
> software for receive on a different line. (No, I am not foolish enough 
> to  try and get an office of 40 year olds to use computers to send 
> faxes), but  what software?
> 
> Everything I see recommends against Symantec's Winfax--especially since 
> it  doesn't seem to work on Windows XP reliably.
> 
> All I need is a simple program that will receive incoming faxes  
> automatically & stick them somewhere so that they can be reviewed, 
> printed  or trashed. Ideally over a network as we have a machine sitting 
> in a back  room doing nothing more than serve as an internet server for 
> the DSL  line.  It also has a regular phone modem that could be hooked 
> to the fax  line.  We have customers (pro sports team, for example) that 
> love to send  endless meaningless stats and the occasional broadcast 
> order, so we can't  exclude anyone with spam catching. These are 
> probably the folks that are  guilty of running the ink cartridges dry on 
> our present machine.
>