From: dannyb@panix.com
In Bill Horne
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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