Re: Fax number
- From: "Ed Cryer" <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:45:14 +0100
"John of Aix" <j.murphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:47efd5c1$0$871$ba4acef3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ed Cryer wrote:I had a superb meal in a Lakeland hotel recently. We're going back
ASAP, but in the meantime I emailed them for their menu.
I got this reply;
"Thank you for your kind report! We are glad that you enjoyed your
meal with us. Do you have a fax number as we've got a bit of a blip
in the system here and are unable to email the menu."
I use telephone broadband. Is there any way I can use it for fax, and
simply give them this number?
No, you need to use an ordinary 56k type modem. Your PC may already have one. Cable it directly to the phone soclet, not via a broadband filter then use a Fax programme to send and receive faxes. If you use W98 or XP there is one there somewhere but its pretty laborious and while it can send faxes I am not sure if it can them.
I did that. I have a 56k internal modem. So I installed the WinXP fax services; cabled the modem to the phone socket; and left the program running, set to "receive automatically after two rings".
Surprisingly it worked. But I won't know how much it cost until I get the bill.
Ed
P.S. I strongly suspect it would have been easier all round to just use a proxy fax service. Or send an email to the hotel teaching them how to use a scanner and email the pic as an attachment.
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