fax

[pujols]

morning...got internet faxing facility and a tel number.
Can you please tell me how to ge started to send faxes.
As you can tell I am hopeless with French telephones and maptops etc.

[wallypott]

What kind of fax are you talking about? Is it a feed through one, where pages go through something similar to a printer or is one on the computer, which you can use to fax something off your computer to a fax number?

[la vache!]

I used a free internet fax service to fax the UK a few months ago (the UK passport office if anyone wonders what archaic institution still requires a faxed signed document). I added the document I wanted to send as an attachment, put in the phone numbers etc. et voilà. Very simple.
http://www.freepopfax.com/

[pujols]

Thanks La Vache

[Windy]

That reminds me of a conversation I had recently regarding a contract where they insisted on a "fax" and would not accept and email of a scan of the same document. (actually it's a conversationI have now had several times)

I had a terse discussion with them about the meaning of "facsimile" and the ease of faking a signature on the fax but it did no good. On this occasion I offered several celebrity signatures and asked them to choose which they wanted - Jonny Depp's is a particular favourite of mine as it looks like a five year old drawing on a wall. Annoyingly they only wanted mine and I don't have to fake that.

Anyway it sees that fax machines are magic and confirm validity in a way that a scanner that does exactly the same thing apart from sending the resulting image down a phone line of course can't do.

Some people just don't get logic at all. I would have thought that apart from their very spurious legal acceptability faxes had outlived their function these days.

[Margaret]

Germans are still devoted to their fax machines in the same way. The joke is on them though: we have a UK fax number and no fax machine but the faxes are automatically rerouted to my email so they reach me anywhere, anytime!

[Hells Bells]

My French bank is very attached to faxes, but has finally replaced the necessity to fax details of any accounts I wish to transfer money to. Now when I add them to the online account I just enter a code which they text to me.