Fax Chronicle

I posted a comment to this post over at Web Worker Daily. Good luck to him getting rid of it, but  the fact is that fax is going to be around for awhile (at least until my team finishes our replacement technology - )

I don’t know about the rest of you, but over the last decade I’ve been through a ridiculous number of alternatives in my search for a workable fax solution:

• PC fax cards
• Dedicated fax machines
• Outlook add-in software
• Online fax-to-email gateways

Every one of these things has ended up requiring time, expense, and configuration. Meanwhile, I’ve been sending and receiving fewer and fewer faxes every years, as even my least up-to-date clients have managed to migrate themselves largely to e-mail. Maybe there are some industries where the fax machine remains an essential tool, but the sort of consulting I’m in doesn’t seem to be one of them.

So, I believe this is the year that I’m finally going to pull the plug on this piece of 19th-century technology.

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