Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-14 Thread keith smith
Excellent info!!   Keith Smith On Friday, February 14, 2014 11:58 AM, "j...@actionline.com" wrote: A few ideas that may be useful to someone: 1) There are several services that provide a free phone number by which to receive faxes by email free. We use one of tho

Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-14 Thread joe
A few ideas that may be useful to someone: 1) There are several services that provide a free phone number by which to receive faxes by email free. We use one of those. 2) When I need a document "scanned," I use either my cell phone camera or my Nexus7 tablet which 3) On the *rare* occasion that

Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-14 Thread keith smith
I may not have to standup to go to the fax machine, however I have to standup to go to the scanner to scan in docs.  This is great, and I have done it in the past, however the manufacturer of my  all-in-one printer/fax/scanner/copier has not released drivers that work in windows 7 or 8 and I am

Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-13 Thread Matt Graham
On 2014-02-12 12:49, Ed wrote: If you are managing the list for the group - then go with an LDAP server If you are the only person who's going to use this contact list, then setting up and administering an LDAP server will be much more of a pain than anything useful. The most flexible form

Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-13 Thread Brian Cluff
My point was that faxing is old technology that can (and should) be completely replaced by email/web/cloud storage... whatever is the most appropriate for your document. Email is more reliable, and you get to see what the document looks like before you send it and it's even more of a time save

Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-13 Thread sr
My faxes come in as emails, so take that for what it's worth :-) Sean On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:49 AM, keith smith wrote: > Faxing can be a great time saver. For instance if I forget to give my CPA > something, I can fax it and save myself the hour round trip drive. > > Also faxes get read. Em

Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-13 Thread keith smith
Faxing can be a great time saver.  For instance if I forget to give my CPA something, I can fax it and save myself the hour round trip drive.  Also faxes get read.  Emails go unopened and I probably will not get the cellular number of most of the people I have some sort of relationship with so

Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-12 Thread Brian Cluff
On 02/12/2014 01:02 PM, Ed wrote: Asterisk - who sends faxes->mailmerge? Faxes? Do you know of a service for mailing out 8-Track tapes too :) Brian --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to

Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-12 Thread Ed
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:36 PM, keith smith wrote: > Thank you for your feedback!! > > I'll be using it for sending emails, making phone calls, sending faxes, in > various social media... FB, twitter, etc > > > > Keith Smith > > oh - you want LDAP - Lightweight Director

Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-12 Thread Brian Cluff
Something like kaddressbook might be what you are looking for. Check out it's custom fields for the extra information that it does support by default. You could also use some thing like Thunderbird's address book. Brian Cluff On 02/12/2014 12:36 PM, keith smith wrote: Thank you for your feed

Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-12 Thread Ed
1) If you are managing the list for the group - then go with an LDAP server - let me know if you are going to share the contacts 8) 2) The most flexible format is likely vCard as that can be consumed by the most different clients/services. Sharing would also be the easiest with a web server, a card

Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-12 Thread keith smith
Thank you for your feedback!! I'll be using it for sending emails, making phone calls, sending faxes, in various social media... FB, twitter, etc   Keith Smith On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:49 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: well depending on what you are doin

Re: OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-12 Thread Stephen Partington
well depending on what you are doing with that information a CRM may be needed. On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:38 AM, keith smith wrote: > Hi, > > I'm collecting a large number of contacts from within the community. > Short of a spreadsheet, is there any other options I may have? > > A spreadsheet

OT: Managing a Contact List

2014-02-12 Thread keith smith
Hi, I'm collecting a large number of contacts from within the community.  Short of a spreadsheet, is there any other options I may have? A spreadsheet will do what I need, I was just wondering if there is any other options that might be better. Thanks!!   Keith Smith-