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Such 19th Century Technology has no place in a 21st Century office!
I have to get off my arse and wander down a corridor to pick up a piece of paper that could easily have been scanned and emailed.
B@stards!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: I have to get off my lazy arse and wander down a corridor to pick up a piece of paper that could easily have been scanned and emailed.
FTFY 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
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JimmyRopes
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That is terrible. They should send an Ethiopian Celebrity over here to make a video which they could then show back home to raise money for you.
"Everyday Dave has to walk down the corridor of his office to receive a fax, if you donate just £5 we can buy him a Skateboard"
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Get yourself an online fax service! I get my faxes mailed as pdf's
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That is cool.  for your comment
Any recommendations on sites (cheap is good, free is better)?
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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Well, I'd try to find a company that is doing that in the country where you live so that you can either redirect your current fax number to a number of the company without to much additional costs or that the number you rent (if they offer such a possibility) is a number that isn't making it overly expensive for those who want to send a fax to you. 
But I don't think you'll find one for free as you need phone capacity to handle multiple connections and the infrastructure to handle those. (and believe me: hardware to handle multiple faxes at the same time can easily cost multiple 10'000$)
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Wow.
Thanks for the info, you probably have narrowed my search a lot.
That should make it way easier to find something (or not find anything  ).
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
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I'm not getting it. When you receive a fax to your PC, why would you print it out? What makes a fax different from a PDF file?
(Oh, so you don't have the phone line connected to your PC? Well, why not? I set that up more than 20 years ago at home. At work, faxes are picked up by the PABX and sent to us as an email enclosure, but that wasn't set up until later, more like ten years ago.)
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Indeed.[^]
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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There was a reason faxes were going to live on even though no-one understands why.
Can't remember what it was though.
All we got on ours at work are spam.
In other 'struggling to adapt to technology' news. Any email received from our customers gets printed off, scanned, the image converted to PDF and then attached to the customer account.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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To the not very technical a Fax machine is Vital (in the legal profession) the Fax, is regarded as vital as mail to quote "all this E-mail documents is not very secure" Palm+Face! 
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Aren't football transfers confirmed by fax?
If an organization as forward thinking as the FA is happy with them...
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Things as certain as Death and Faxes, can be more firmly believ’d.
Daniel Defoe, "The Political History of the Devil"
I'd rather be phishing!
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In the 21st Century faxes go into the e-mail system as pdf's and get sent to admin to deal with.
Faxed from my Notebook in a bar off Vaci Utci, Budapest
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As Glenn as already pointed out, for the legal profession, a fax is considered to be the equivalent of an original, but not so e-mails. I suspect that has more to do with technology outpacing regulations than people not believing an e-mail has not been tampered with before being ultimately received.
And, yes, it is possible to have a fax received and put into an e-mail document as a PDF, but that doesn't necessarily mean every law office has the time, money or desire to implement that solution.
For them, a fax works, so why change it?
Tim
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Tim Carmichael wrote: I suspect that has more to do with technology outpacing regulations than people not believing an e-mail has not been tampered with before being ultimately received.
Considering Outlook lets you save back edited attachments into the original e-mail, I wouldn't assume than an e-mailed attachment hadn't been modified.
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Is it a plain paper fax or one that uses thermal paper that fades over time?
/ravi
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Dalek Dave wrote: I have to get off my arse and wander down a corridor to pick up a piece of paper that could easily have been scanned and emailed.
If you want to discuss people ignoring existing technologies designed to save everyone time...
My dad bought a wrecked car and--being a mechanic and his neighbor being a bodyman--put it back on the road. As part of the process to get it certified, he had to take pictures, get the JPGs printed, and snail-mail them in. I suspect that on the receiving end, somebody had to scan them back into some electronic format for archiving (assuming somebody needs to hang onto these)...
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Hi All,
Some of the regulars will know of my complaining about the circle of H E double right angles I am in with a project, that lacks documentation, instrumentation that lacks documentation. General Moans, Dilbert heck in other words. I finally plucked the courage to ask the Boss what I need to do. His answer was to ask Client, Client ask Boss, Boss has found an issue with other things he is doing so they need to sit down and have a 'confab' about it so he is coming over next week, I think he has finally realised there are decisions he needs to make rather than defer to others to get what he wants. I have taken the advice offered and it could be good. (He actually sent me an email yesterday saying "I was doing a great job")
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glennPattonWork wrote: He actually sent me an email yesterday saying "I was doing a great job"
Good on ya.
Now let's hope that the powers that be can come to some decision so that you can get out of the hot seat. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Mmm, my cynical side says he might have gone else where and was told "to do it with those spec's it will cost $X an hour", were we charge less than $X and have a better idea of what needs to be done. But I was feeling like I knew what I was doing for the first time!
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That is why I qualified it with let's hope. 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Doesn't matter if he did - in fact it helps if he did.
I've had a couple of people like that in the past: "HOW MUCH?! I'm going to Joe!" Then a year or so later they come back and you get the same job, but with a better specification and a customer that loves you forever! 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: a customer that loves you forever!
I would settle with "love you long time". 
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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