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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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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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
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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.
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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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