Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-10 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I knew this thread would bring up some ironies. For the record it's all in their minds. E-Mails have been upheld in the US Court system as legal documents. Maybe. But as soon as you have to interact with non-US companies

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-10 Thread Arthur Chance
On 05/10/11 09:36, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Bill Tillmanbtillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I knew this thread would bring up some ironies. For the record it's all in their minds. E-Mails have been upheld in the US Court system as legal documents. Maybe. But as soon as you

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-07 Thread Bill Tillman
we know how and we've done it like this for so long, we don't want to change. IMHO...Faxing is so last century. From: David Brodbeck g...@gull.us To: FreeBSD Questions questi...@freebsd.org Sent: Fri, May 6, 2011 1:30:58 PM Subject: Re: Sending a Fax On Fri

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-07 Thread Reed Loefgren
: Sending a Fax On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Bill Tillmanbtillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I read the other replies to your post so let me put in my 2 cents worth. For the last few years, I have basically abandoned faxing in favor of e-mailing PDF and other document files. Paperless is not only more

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-07 Thread Antonio Olivares
I'd like to add to this that, in my opinion, the real issue these days is the emailing of unencrypted business papers. I take the position that *nothing* is ever deleted from an email server these days; or from those servers that are just relaying, no matter what the RFC says. I shake my head

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 7 May 2011 07:30:29 -0700 (PDT), Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: Like I said, it's all in their minds. Faxing is no safer or more secure than any other form of comminication. Its simply a waste of ink, toner and paper as far as I'm concerned. I fully agree - especially

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 07 May 2011 10:29:46 -0600, Reed Loefgren rloefg...@forethought.net wrote: I'd like to add to this that, in my opinion, the real issue these days is the emailing of unencrypted business papers. You do not have ANY idea of how clueless people can be, do you? :-) Again, I've seen in

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, May 05, 2011, Doug Hardie wrote: On 5 May 2011, at 22:19, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, May 05, 2011 a las 07:21:29PM -0700, Doug Hardie escribió: One of my clients needs to send a lot of faxes. He has a Brother 8680DN which will fax. Any ideas how to send a file to it

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, May 05, 2011 a las 11:48:55PM -0700, Bill Campbell escribió: I've found that the Multitech external modems have been the most reliable for fax operations. We've been using HylaFAX for years, since it was called Flexfax. I have been using HylaFAX for many years in my company

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, May 05, 2011 a las 07:21:29PM -0700, Doug Hardie escribió: One of my clients needs to send a lot of faxes. He has a Brother 8680DN which will fax. Any ideas how to send a file to it and get it to send a fax? I am not finding anything beyond printing for that unit via

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu May 5 21:50:34 2011 From: Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 19:21:29 -0700 To: FreeBSD Questions questi...@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: Sending a Fax One of my clients needs to send a lot of faxes. He has a Brother 8680DN which

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org To: FreeBSD Questions questi...@freebsd.org Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 10:21:29 PM Subject: Sending a Fax One of my clients needs to send a lot of faxes.  He has a Brother 8680DN which will fax.  Any ideas how to send a file to it

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 5 May 2011, Doug Hardie wrote: Thanks. As best as I can tell the Brother unit has a modem built it, but the only interface to it is via ethernet. I suspect it takes a PDF and then sends that, much like printing. The Linux drivers should have scripts for this, like brpcfax and

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I read the other replies to your post so let me put in my 2 cents worth. For the last few years, I have basically abandoned faxing in favor of e-mailing PDF and other document files. Paperless is not only more

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 6 May 2011 10:30:58 -0700, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: I read the other replies to your post so let me put in my 2 cents worth. For the last few years, I have basically abandoned faxing in favor of

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: In the past, I've also used the hylafax port with a regular external serial modem, and it worked perfectly. I think the moden was an... Elsa? MicroLink something? Looked like a green toy, but worked very well. I've used it

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 6 May 2011 19:50:47 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de articulated: On Fri, 6 May 2011 10:30:58 -0700, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: Believe it or not, there are industries where faxing is still the

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-06 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 6 May 2011 19:09:58 -0400, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2011 19:50:47 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de articulated: On Fri, 6 May 2011 10:30:58 -0700, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-05 Thread Doug Hardie
On 5 May 2011, at 22:19, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, May 05, 2011 a las 07:21:29PM -0700, Doug Hardie escribió: One of my clients needs to send a lot of faxes. He has a Brother 8680DN which will fax. Any ideas how to send a file to it and get it to send a fax? I am not

RE: Sending a Fax

2011-05-05 Thread Matt Emmerton
One of my clients needs to send a lot of faxes. He has a Brother 8680DN which will fax. Any ideas how to send a file to it and get it to send a fax? I am not finding anything beyond printing for that unit via Google. According to