On Tuesday, March 16, 1999 19:31, Twarns [mailto:[log in to unmask]] said,

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> As far as the costs are concerned, fax solutions can be cost
> justified easily
> through labor reductions.  If you had to manually fax out
> 1,000 faxes per day
> from a report, it takes many fax machines and many people full time.

Although I came out in defence of both 3K Associates and STR - I will also
interject this --- anyone who faxes reports is crazy.  Use a server process
to create the reports and e-mail them.  There are many elegant solutions
using this method.

If you don't have e-mail capabilities inhouse, get them.  E-Mail is getting
more inexpensive.  NetMail can be used to e-mail reports right from the
3000.  Other servers can also be used.  (Again, it may seem that the costs
are disparate, they are not -- NT and Client Licenses + Exchange equal about
what you would pay for NetMail)

A leased line to the 'net these days is coming down faster than a gallon of
gas/litre of petrol in the USA (OK, that's starting to go up again ;) -- I
just got a quote that cut yet another $300/month off my line from Verio,
after @Home said they could do it for $200 less/month - and I'm not even
getting them to compete!  (Oh yeah - no installation costs either! Another
couple thousand off the cost).

In other words - faxing is not always the answer.

Cheers,
Joe

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