[Shotimes] OT (computer stuf)

[Ron Porter]

Jim, I tried to send this to you privately (as you sent to me), but your ISP
keeps bouncing it as SPAM, and I couldn't get a good explanation why, so
I'll send to the list.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Porter [mailto:rsporter@prodigy.net] 
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 3:09 AM
To: 'James White'
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] OT (computer stuf)


Well, I had WinFax Pro 5.0 (the first Win95 setup) and it worked GREAT for
me for many years. I now have WinFax Basic that I got with my Norton package
a few years ago (like 9.0 or something), and for the faxes that we need to
do, it also works slick. For receiving faxes (which is 90%+ of my fax work),
the j2.com is the BEST, as you get it as an email, and you can save it as a
file, print it, whatever.

I don't recall any receiving issues with WinFax Pro.....sounds like another
issue that you had. I had mine on our home desktop. I recall, in the distant
past, sending out subsets of previous faxes, but it's been awhile.

Jim, WinFax Pro has been the "gold standard" for PC faxing for at least 10
years now. Don't know what your issues might have been.

If you do a lot of faxes from Word or other electronic media, the j2.com
deal can send faxes if you subscribe to their service (again, receive-only
is free). As I understand, they are send like e-mail. I would check it out.

Also, get into a newer PC that can run XP Pro. My home desktop, with Win
98SE, annoys the shit out of me (and I always thought it was fine), but my
work laptop has XP Pro and it works VERY well. When I have to use the
desktop, I soon remember what a PITA those older MS operating systems were!

Ron

-----Original Message-----
From: James White [mailto:greensho@crown.net] 
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 12:00 AM
To: Ron Porter
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] OT (computer stuf)


I tried WinFax Pro 6.0 a couple of years ago and it was one of the worst fax
programs I have ever used.

When it actually did work, and receive a fax, which was about only 1/3 of
the time, I couldn't fax back one page out of 20 with my comments on it.
All 20 pages went out!  No way to just send only one page of their 20.

And this was real "fat-ware" where the computer geeks dropped the ball and
didn't understand what I needed to communicate with my customers from a
Motel room in such wonderful places as Correyville, KS.

regards, Jim White - greensho@crown.net