At 03:01 AM 8/8/98 , you wrote:
>Love the idea! Wish I had a fax machine.
>
>Hilary Blue
>
Hilary, depending on your modem and software, your computer may already be
a machine capable of sending and possibly also receiving faxes - without
any additional expense to you. That could make your computer particularly
valuable, as it can send faxes to congressional offices in Washington, DC,
without telephone toll charges - since you live in the Washington area
already.
For those of us in the boonies, like Texas, Illinois, California, and even
New York <G>, the cost of a one-minute fax (typical for one page) is the
same as the cost of a one-minute phone call . Not a problem if you send
one fax - but it could get to be a big expense if you send hundreds. (Yes,
cheaper than snail-mail, but we're still talking about lots of money.)
E-mail, on the other hand, is free, but possibly treated less seriously.
Example: you can send a hand-written note via fax, with the additional
impact that has; but all e-mail may look the same.
Your son, Jed, may have a ready answer for you on this - but if we decide
to go to a fax-in, all of the computers of listmembers in the Washington,
DC, telephone exchanges may also prove valuable in this regard.
Art
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