----- Original Message ----- > From: Bruce Johnson <[email protected]>
> On Nov 21, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: > >> FAX is a nearly extinct technology, killed off by the internet. I can > understand needing to send or perhaps receive "one" FAX, but > "adding FAX capability" when the number of FAX machines available to > communicate with is quickly vanishing seems futile. > > You seem to inhabit a strange world where "that which is not on the > internet" is not, somehow, real. Faxes are in wide, wide usage. We just set > up network fax capability on a large Ricoh network copier/printer for one of > the > larger groups in the College here because their old bank of 4 fax machines > was > dying. They send and receive hundreds of faxes a week. > > About half of all prescriptions filled remotely in the US is done by fax > machine. A fax cannot be falsified via a MITM attack like an email can, nor > can > it be as easily forged, and faxes, unlike emails, support legal signature > requirements. I think it really depends on what the OP fax needs are. I believe fax is a dying technology but not nearly extinct yet. As owner of a small printing company that offers a fax service my copier/printers have fax capabilities that are used daily for many folks who need to send or receive requested documents to banks, real estate companies, academic, legal and medical institutions. Many of these clients are not computer savy or wish to spend the money and/or time to upgrade to a fax modem or an all-in-one machine. Some of these clients have payed more for my service than for a fax or or all-in-one machine costs. AND I have shared that info with them --but still they are not comfortable or confident with the technology. So at one level for many of us the fax as means to send info is dead. For many others it is still essential. Faxes are definitely more secure than email in the hacking sense. However as I stated in a previous thread, some people run for the WhiteOut and alter the documents before they are faxed. Sometimes just do this to hide their phone and address. And sometimes they write over the WhiteOut changing the integrity of the document. So in an analog sense faxes are also subject to fraud. Getting back to the original problem, the OP has a need for a fax solution. Wouldn't a simple installation of the G4 internal modem work? Perhaps the QS 2002 has one already installed? They are selling for $5-10 on the LEM list. Don't know if they work with DSL? And I like Peter's suggestion of a 5-in-1 (all-in-one) idea, simple and to the point and more useful than a fax modem. --glen -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
