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    From Bill Horne@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 3 11:15:21 2021
    I think there are services which will carry a message from either email
    or a web page to a FAX machine which is connected to the PSTN, vice versa.

    If you have used such a service, please post your remarks about it: the
    service you used, what it cost, how well (or poorly) it worked, the
    costs, and anything else a neophyte would need to know.

    Thank you for your help.

    Bill
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    Bill Horne

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  • From John Levine@21:1/5 to telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-thi on Sun Oct 3 14:51:45 2021
    It appears that Bill Horne <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.remove-this.telecom-digest.org> said:
    I think there are services which will carry a message from either email
    or a web page to a FAX machine which is connected to the PSTN, vice versa.

    Callcentric handles incoming faxes; set up a call treatment to route
    calls to their fax service. It works fine, can email you the fax.

    For outgoing faxes I've used faxzero which puts an ad on the coversheet
    and sends limited quantities of fax for free, you upload a PDF and tell
    them where to send it. It's worked for me the few times a doctor
    demanded a fax. (Needless to say, when I got there, her system had
    turned the fax back into a lower quality version of my original PDF.)

    eFax used to offer a free limited fax->email service. I don't see any
    way to sign up for it any more, but I still get the occasional junk fax
    to an old eFax account.

    R's,
    John

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  • From danny burstein@21:1/5 to Bill Horne on Sun Oct 3 18:32:43 2021
    In <d5bc04f5-b012-1bd7-d8a6-c10b5440aad2@billhorne.com> Bill Horne <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.remove-this.telecom-digest.org> writes:

    I think there are services which will carry a message from either email
    or a web page to a FAX machine which is connected to the PSTN, vice versa.

    If you have used such a service, please post your remarks about it: the >service you used, what it cost, how well (or poorly) it worked, the
    costs, and anything else a neophyte would need to know.

    Thank you for your help.

    My LSW is a professional in flyover country, Michigan. Amazingly
    enough our area was served by both the entrenched, formerly
    a Bell Telephone group, and also a CLEC.

    (LSW = Long Suffering Wife)

    We used the CLEC.

    I noticed they offered an e-fax service and we signed up
    for it. We LOVE it.

    It's something like $5/month with NO additional charge
    for incoming and... typically $0.25 for some of the
    outgoing. But read on.

    Incoming are both stored on their server and can be
    accessed via web page. But, and this is a BIG BUT,
    they can also be e-mailed out to you as a PDF.

    In our case, since we control our Internet domain,
    that one e-mail gets resent to a half dozen of
    our addresses, including our phones, so whoever's
    first checks it.

    Another advantage to this for our purposes is that
    if multiple people send her faxen, there's no busy signal.

    Outgoing is a bit trickier and operates through
    their web interface. You pull it up and, if it's
    just a quic message, fill in the blanks on
    the cover sheet.

    If it's a (loosely speaking) real document, you
    have to upload it (pretty straightforward) via
    the web page, add the phone number, etc.

    Company is Winntel, based in Winn, Michigan.

    e-mail: info@winntel.com

    phone: (866) 820-3266

    No conflicts of interest or connections aside
    from being very satisfied customers.


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    Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
    dannyb@panix.com
    [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

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  • From Brian Gordon@21:1/5 to telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-thi on Wed Oct 6 14:26:55 2021
    In article <d5bc04f5-b012-1bd7-d8a6-c10b5440aad2@billhorne.com>,
    Bill Horne <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.remove-this.telecom-digest.org> wrote:
    I think there are services which will carry a message from either email
    or a web page to a FAX machine which is connected to the PSTN, vice versa.

    If you have used such a service, please post your remarks about it: the >service you used, what it cost, how well (or poorly) it worked, the
    costs, and anything else a neophyte would need to know.
    [...]

    I use Ring Central (ringcentral.com) for about $167/yr.

    They give me a unique 800 number for receiving faxes, which they then e-mail
    to me. To send a FAX, I e-mail it as an attachment to an address based on
    the FAX number. Very, very few problems over the years.
    -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | Brian Gordon brian dot gordon at cox dot net | + bgordon@aol.com Bass: NSC Frank Thorne + +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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  • From John Levine@21:1/5 to It appears that Brian Gordon on Thu Oct 7 14:11:04 2021
    It appears that Brian Gordon <briang.remove-this@and-this-too.panix.com> said: >I use Ring Central (ringcentral.com) for about $167/yr.

    I believe it works but wow, is that expensive.

    Callcentric, which Bill and I use, will sell you a POTS number for
    $1/mo or toll-free for $3.95/mo + 2c/minute. Turning incoming faxes
    into e-mail is free.

    For the very occasional outgoing fax, I use faxzero which will send up
    to 3 pages for free with their blurb on the cover sheet or up to 25
    pages for $2 with no branding.

    R's,
    John

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