Re: Is Fax Dead Yet?

On Apr 21, 12:17 pm, D from BC <myrealaddr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:03:24 -0700 (PDT), "David L. Jones"



<altz...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 21, 3:33 am, D from BC <myrealaddr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I sold my fax modem years ago.
Now I use a web-to-fax service for 10 cents per outgoing fax.
I don't fax very often and over the years it hasn't even totaled yet
to a large coffee.
However, nobody can fax in but nobody does anyways..

Has fax faded away yet?
Should a business still be faxable? Or does fax look old fashioned
these days?

Let's say...

Fax # on business cards
Fax # on signs
Fax # on web sites
Fax # on vans
Fax # on T shirts

I think fax is not worthy of the added text space anymore.

D from BC
British Columbia
Canada

I finally tossed out my old fax machine the other week, although I
have not used it for maybe the last 8 years.
I maybe send a few faxes per year using the machine at work, for stuff
that has no easy email option.

As a big business I think you still need one, for communicating with
the remaining luddites.

I can remember using my personal fax machine almost daily pre-
internet. I even had a "polling" feature set up so people could poll
my fax machine and download my latest info or whatever - kinda like a
web page. Got maybe one "hit" a day on average for that at the peak.
Now I get more than one hit a minute 24/7 on the web.

Dave.

Maybe it's just spam bots and a dozen search engine spiders :P
Is it really people looking at the web site?

Yep. According to the stats, bots and spiders typically represent
around 1% or so of my traffic.

Dave.
.

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