Well, you know how insurances are.They want to mail me the documents or forms yet they know my email address and doesn't want to send it by email. They have the capability to send me a type of file that would allow me to fill out and sign my name via computer but they won't do that. Plus paperwork from my wheelchair place about repairs. Also from doctors and appointments.
Just once someone from my insurance put a letter into my email and sent it to me instead of sending it by mail.
With all the technology out there they will want to use fax machines because they are more secure when sending documents they say. A PDF file is an encrypted file and can't be seen for info while in route. But you can't tell them nothing.
I know that there is eFax, fax to email, or email to fax.
I'm just getting a little pissed that some of the mail my insurance sends me doesn't get to me and lately the mail at times is a little scary wondering if it will get to me or not. So if I want to get my documents from them I will get a fax machine until they smarten up and start using the new technology that is available.
I honestly can't afford to pay the online fax service as I'm very low income.
All my documents and stuff I get in the mail is scanned into the storage computer so I can pull it up when necessary when I happen to be talking to them on the phone.
I know all the technology that's out there as I look forward to the new stuff that comes out. But insurances and other businesses are getting a little behind the 8 ball.
On Thu, Mar 10, 2022, at 19:35, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I suppose maybe some industries are still weird like that still and
> require some sort of fax, but for probably a better chunk of a decade I
> just edit the PDF, apply a transparent png of my signature I created,
> and "sign" docs as needed to email back to someone easy enough. Saves
> on dead trees, and an annoyed me as I have to travel somewhere for a
> working printer and/or fax, plus quick turn-around for signed docs.
>
> What are you doing that requires such dedication to legacy technology.
> ie faxing? Nothing cheaper than free by not printing or faxing
> anything, and Master PDF Editor still has a free version that works
> splendidly that I've used for most or all that past decade.
>
> -mb
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 4:49 PM Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss
> <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>> I usually get documents or forms that needs to be done on the computer. I guess I'm just old school. :)
>> The way the mail is getting slower and slower. I have been waiting for documents to come in the mail and never get it.
>> I'm still waiting for a document to come in the mail from a month ago.
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 10, 2022, at 16:42, Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> > On 2022-03-10 15:30, Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> >> I'm looking to setup my computer for faxes sending and receiving. I'm
>> >> looking at using the U.S. robotics fax modem but unsure if the two fax
>> >> software made for Linux will support it as I would be using a USB
>> >> adapter for serial port connection to the fax modem.
>> >
>> > I think most USB to 9-pin converters work pretty well these days. They
>> > should show up as /dev/ttyUSB0 . efax and efax-gtk (or hylafax) should
>> > both work with whatever device node it shows up as.
>> >
>> >> I once used such a modem with Linux a couple of decades ago.
>> >> But I used a script for the fax modem to make the
>> >> connection. So [will it] run with Linux[?]
>> >
>> > Highly probable if the thing has a 9-pin serial port. ISTR hylafax was
>> > a thing in 1998, so it's not like this hasn't been a solved problem for
>> > a while. The main question I have is: Why is anyone faxing anything?
>> > It's probably faster to take a picture of 1 page and mail it with a cell
>> > phone now than it is to scan 1 page, encode it as G3, convert it to
>> > analog, transmit it, and reverse all that to print it out at the
>> > destination.
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