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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">BBC news recently had a story about health care and FAX machines. Seems that when ICU's were full of patients, the FAX machines were generating stacks of paper. It was a major effort to deal with the archaic messaging method.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Anyway I think most of us were relieved when the recall results were reported. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">A couple weeks ago, I drove down I5 and saw a lot of signs promoting the recall and one specific candidate. Very different from the media messaging we were seeing in the Bay Area.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 07:45:10 PM PDT, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Quoting Nick Moffitt (<a shape="rect" href="mailto:nick@zork.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">nick@zork.net</a>):<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> But you know, they really could have chosen a better domain name than<br clear="none">> CABALlottrax.com...<br clear="none"><br clear="none">The whole shaggy, um, ballot story was _more_ than worth it, just for<br clear="none">that punch line.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Chez Moen faced a similar sort of problem recently, when we wanted to <br clear="none">send something in parallel copies to a set of corporate lawyer types,<br clear="none">snail mail for this-is-for-real-on-the-record, and fax so that they <br clear="none">got a copy _right not_ -- the problem being that ye olde landline <br clear="none">long ago got jettisoned.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I considered, for several seconds, an online faxing services. There are<br clear="none">a number of them. This seems as likely a guide as any:<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-online-fax,review-2124.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.tomsguide.com/us/best-online-fax,review-2124.html</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none">And then, I thought, nope. Pay the local FedEx/Kinko's/UPS/whatever<br clear="none">shop to fire up a 1972-compliant fax machine, and just send that sucker<br clear="none">old-school -- such that there's real-time delivery, atavistic fax-tone<br clear="none">whining, and a printed-out delivery report suitable for enshrining in a<br clear="none">folder. So, that's what we did.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">If I'd been in your shoes, I suppose that's what I'd have tried first,<br clear="none">just because it's the stupid-simple direct approach. Heaven's knows<br clear="none">where in the Home Counties will deliver a fax for a few quid -- though <br clear="none">these guys claim £2.50/page to US destinaton numbers. At minimum, by <br clear="none">implication, they make a point of keeping a functional fax machine<br clear="none">around _and_ understand international dialling prefixes.<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://www.ryman.co.uk/services/fax" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ryman.co.uk/services/fax</a><div class="ydpd1f37b2yqt1369199889" id="ydpd1f37b2yqtfd41099"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><br clear="none"></div></div>
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