Re: [Thinkpad] [TP-almost on topic] Faxes

Jon Kelly:
> This may help...
> http://www.command-comm.com/products.html

Someone else emailed me about this off-list today. I might try it,
though a software/modem (or many modems - I have boxes of 'em, internal
,external, pcmcia, you name it) solution would be more satisfying.

Bruce Markowitz :
> once you have a standalone fax machine, you'll never want to use a
computer fax again.

That's an easy one, I never want to use a computer fax again, nor any
other kind of fax.

Deanna Berman:
>If you answer a fax call on a shared voice/fax line - Do not hang up
the
>handset right away. Right click the Controller icon In the Windows
system
>tray and click Manual Receive Now.

Yes, this is what I already do on those rare occasions when I am around
and expecting a fax on my own line (instead of the departmental fax
machine).

What I really want is not to come into my office after being elsewhere,
see the answering machine blinking, and - when I press it - find the
tape full of beep-beep-beeps. The dimwits who fax the athletics office
don't give up after they fail to connect - they try again and again and
again and again. On one occasion I got back to the office to find
they'd completely filled a 60 minute tape, causing my answering machine
to stop answering, and they were still at it - I had time in that case
to boot a laptop, run Winfax, hook it to the phone, and capture the fax
(ultimately embarrassing for both faxer and intended recipient).

Jonathan Berry:
> Didn't the old 701C come with a program which was a
> fax-receiver / answering machine?

Talkworks (also just suggested to me by John LaBella). I no longer have
a 701, but this is a good idea, which I will pursue, especially if it is
no longer as flaky as it was, and isn't too expensive.

Thanks all.

David

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Received on Wed Mar 22 21:25:28 2006