> If fax machines are 'luddite nonsense', one assumes you don't bother with
> phones either.
Not at $4 a minute no, I don't. Actually I'm exaggerating, I think the local
Telco recently dropped their price to about $2.50 a minute (off peak - which
means I can call the US 'cheaply' in the middle of the night and speak to
automated systems telling me what the office hours are).
Net2Phone, I hear you say? Well, first it's 'illegal' here (although how the
Telco plans to stop it is beyond me - but they did manage to kill 'callback'
very nicely) plus there's generally insufficient bandwidth available to make
it toll quality.
> Out of an inability/unwillingness to use fax machines, you
> operate at a cost level 350% higher than neccessary. I guess
> that seems smart, and cutting edge in someones mind.
Oh, I have e-mail2fax - several in fact - and use them regularly. What I
didn't have until a few weeks ago was a scanner to scan the signatures and
completed forms.
Sure, I could have made an extra $25 a year on those domains I've registered
with Internic recently, but at what cost? Currently, if I change DNS servers
I send a 'global change' to Internic - not to half a dozen 'registrar of the
week'. Frankly if my business model depended on that $2 a month, I would
consider another line of business. Yes, it would be nice to have - even
essential if I was doing high volume/low price which is increasingly the
case (hence the move to OpenSRS, after which I will no longer be charging
customers for domain registration at all)
> I guess that seems smart, and cutting edge in someones mind.
Not everyone buys on price alone...
Regards
Bob
