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Anyone using internet fax?
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Topic: | Anyone using internet fax? This thread has 29 replies. Displaying posts 1 through 15. |
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Post 1 made on Monday March 21, 2011 at 08:57 |
cpchillin Select Member |
Joined: Posts: | September 2007 2,239 |
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It still blows me away that in the digital age companies still use regular fax and not a version of efax or just emailing docs. So for the couple faxes a year that I would receive I'm looking at doing an internet fax. Does anyone have an internet fax service or used one? I'd like some reviews on the ones out there. And trust me I googled and found a bunch of efax companies but not many legit reviews.
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Post 2 made on Monday March 21, 2011 at 08:58 |
motech Super Member |
Joined: Posts: | August 2008 3,374 |
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how about . . . efax.com lol
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Post 3 made on Monday March 21, 2011 at 09:02 |
mr2channel Select Member |
Joined: Posts: | August 2002 1,701 |
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the reason most still use a standard fax is you have better protection under FCC rulings...the FCC regulates POTS lines so if you are sending important information such as social security numbers, credit card numbers, account numbers, or any other important info you would not want captured from a mail server you are still better off with standard plain old fax...still amaze's me how many people think it is OK and safe to send data over a non-encryped line...
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What part of "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." do you not understand? |
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Post 4 made on Monday March 21, 2011 at 09:11 |
william david design Super Member |
Joined: Posts: | March 2005 2,943 |
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I understand the security stuff but if it is not sensitive I use faxzero. You get one or two free faxes a day for 1-2 pages and can pay for more pages a reasonable charge.
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Post 5 made on Monday March 21, 2011 at 11:16 |
motech Super Member |
Joined: Posts: | August 2008 3,374 |
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i think the main problem is that people still fax things.
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OP | Post 6 made on Monday March 21, 2011 at 11:44 |
cpchillin Select Member |
Joined: Posts: | September 2007 2,239 |
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Crestron still faxes stuff. As for security concerns we e-mail secure stuff all the time.
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Post 7 made on Monday March 21, 2011 at 12:16 |
cgav Select Member |
Joined: Posts: | September 2009 1,568 |
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i second faxzero for the few times I have to fax crap. Such as Yamaha orders. I'm direct and it is AMAZING in this day and age I have to fax a piece of paper to Yamaha to get an order in. Even the place I get my oil changed at is now paperless. They charge a 1% paperless fee on their itemized receipt (which I am emailed) and I am HAPPY to pay it. I understand redundant storage can be expensive, but paperless is the only way to go!
I'm not the worlds greenest person but we need to take common sense steps to move forward with the times people.
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Post 8 made on Monday March 21, 2011 at 13:22 |
fixitnick Active Member |
Joined: Posts: | November 2010 710 |
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I setup fax.com during a network upgrade for an attorney client several years ago and they have been using without any problems. As a matter of fact they love it. We were just talking about it a few months ago and the owner said she would never go back. Bear in mind, they have some killer 20ppm ScanSnap scanners [Link: buyfcpa.com] installed on every PC in the office so its very convenient for them. They also have a nice array of NAS with structured file directory sharing. Their "practice" is that every piece of paper that walks in the door (mail, receipts, client paperwork, etc) immediately gets run through the scanner and archived on the NAS. Once on the network, they can fax, email, print or whatever they need. The paper(s) then go into a bankers box, sorted by date only, and off to storage when full. They basically have zero paper in the office. I would like to implement something like that myself. It seems to work very nice.
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Post 9 made on Monday March 21, 2011 at 13:26 |
Trent@AVocation Active Member |
Joined: Posts: | November 2009 610 |
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Post 10 made on Monday March 21, 2011 at 13:46 |
Ernie Bornn-Gilman Yes, That Ernie! |
Joined: Posts: | December 2001 30,104 |
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jfax.com offered me a free number about ten years ago. Their free account limit was 15 incoming faxes per month. Once, somehow, enough advertisers collected to send me 16 faxes one month, I was faced with losing the number or paying $15 per month. I've since added faxing out with that same service.
I've never had any operational problems with jfax. The worst it gets is people giving me a funny look when I tell them my fax number is in an area code several hundred miles away.
Let me add to that: the worst it gets is when I have to fax something with a signature, or when I have to fax a dozen pages.
It's much easier to point the faxing program to fifteen pages as files on my computer than to print them all out, fax them, then throw them away.
As for the signature, I've made a .bmp of my signature and I use that.
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Post 11 made on Monday March 21, 2011 at 14:05 |
Elite Installs Long Time Member |
Joined: Posts: | April 2008 203 |
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I use ring central $7.99 a month and a toll free fax number.
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Post 12 made on Monday March 21, 2011 at 14:20 |
Zohan Super Member |
Joined: Posts: | September 2010 3,096 |
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Phone.com have had it for 2 years and works great. had a different company before that but wasn't as nice, i forget the name...
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Post 13 made on Monday March 21, 2011 at 14:21 |
BlackWire Designs Senior Member |
Joined: Posts: | September 2006 1,401 |
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I use ringcentral for my phones and fax
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Post 14 made on Tuesday March 22, 2011 at 00:12 |
mr2channel Select Member |
Joined: Posts: | August 2002 1,701 |
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On March 21, 2011 at 11:44, cpchillin said...
Crestron still faxes stuff. As for security concerns we e-mail secure stuff all the time. hope you are sending it encrypted
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What part of "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." do you not understand? |
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Post 15 made on Tuesday March 22, 2011 at 04:50 |
SOUND.SD Loyal Member |
Joined: Posts: | April 2006 5,523 |
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On March 21, 2011 at 13:46, Ernie Bornn-Gilman said...
As for the signature, I've made a .bmp of my signature and I use that. This is why I love my tablet. I downloaded a free PDF reader that allows on page annotations so I can type and sign right on the PDF in red "ink" and email it in. I could fax out also but honestly havent had to fax in maybe 2 years.
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