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Gerard S. Cohen
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 975
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 02-16-2002 03:19 PM

I thought of applying the stratagems suggested in the earlier thread.'"Make Your Theatre Better" to discourage spam FAX messages,
but I notice no FAX's contain a FAX address of origin, and the
1-800 telephone number, supposedly for removal from the list, gives
a recorded message to type in your Fax number. Nor do most messages
contain my FAX number, so I cannot prove they were sent to me.

When I installed my FAX machine, the instructions indicated that to comply with U.S. FCC laws, I must program my machine to print my FAX
number on every message. Thus if everyone complied, all received messages would indicate the sender's address.

Therefore senders of spam are violating several federal laws with impunity. Two rolls of FAX film cost me about $90, and paper extra.
This is a serious waste, since about half my incoming messages are spam. Not to mention the delays they cause in incoming and outgoing
FAX mail!

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 02-16-2002 04:27 PM

I know a lot of good businesses use FAX machines but, frankly, isn't FAX becomming passè? I mean, most people who are technologically "with it" are using e-mail (PDF's) aren't they? I think I have used a FAX machine about two times in the last year. All of those times were when the person on the other end couldn't figure out how to e-mail the information to me. One person actually printed out a page from his computer and stuck it in the FAX machine! If he was bound an determined to use FAX, why couldn't he have pressed gone to the "Chooser" (or whatever that "thing" Windoze uses to select printers) then select "FAX" then press the Print button?

Even so, I think it's much easier and much more efficient to send an e-mail with attachment.

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Gerard S. Cohen
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 975
From: Forest Hills, NY, USA
Registered: Sep 2001

posted 02-16-2002 08:12 PM

Randy:
I help my wife by managing her pediatric office, and we send and receive laboratory reports, referrals and specialists' reports daily,
on a Brother plain paper fax machine.
The alternative to FAXed lab reports is to have them hand-delivered,
which delays diagnosis and prognosis of the patient's condition.
Our labs don't send reports via email. Our office telephone lines are very expensive, with no options for local or regional unlimited, as I have at home--commercial rates for small businesses are exorbitant. It takes only a few seconds of telephone time to transmit a fax. And my wife has no patience with computers, though I
use our Dell for filing, generating and printing paper claims, and
transmitting Medicaid claims electronically daily, as well as for word processing.
But it's nice to enter the office and find yesterday's specimens' reports neatly stacked in the FAX tray awaiting collation with the patients' charts, or to FAX a patient's record to a surgeon or other specialist. [Some offices, using Medisoft Patient Accounting or more expensive software, keep all charts and financial records on the computer, where they can be sent via email or FAXed directly from
memory storage, but I'm unable to do that without hiring a full-time computer secretary and changing my wife's addiction to her pen.]
Gerard

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