While relatively new member to DailyKos I have long been a reader. Whenever I've seen a call to action I've done my best to call by phone, email and fax. But alas my fax machine broke this week. But its a shame for a programmer to make such excuses. So I recalled my days of faxing out resumes on mass using my computer and whipped up an step by step tutorial for dKosopedia.
dKosopedia:Faxing
Faxing from your computer is as easy as emailing.
After initial setup, you do need any messy paper, just type a message, File > Print it to the Fax, enter a phone number and you are done.
Here are the details on how to set it up on your Windows XP Computer (probably works for Windows 2000 too). The whole setup will take about 10 minutes and then you are good to go.
Why Fax, Email is easier?
We often see a "Call to Action" post which list emails, phone numbers, and fax numbers. While many of us email and call, I bet a lot of people do not have fax machines.
But did you know?
- Your computer might already have a fax machine!!!
- Computer Faxing is as easy as emailing.
- Its a lot harder to ignore a slew of faxes
And keep in mind an average faxing is about 30-40 seconds per page, so its pretty cheap. This way faxing also saves paper, since we do not need to print and run to the fax machine. Of course if emails were not so easy to ignore, we could save more paper.
Now to the point.
Should this article prove to be useful also I would like to ask the editors of DailyKos to include it in the FAQ. Diary writers who urge people to fax, should consider linking to it.
I intend to expand the article to cover Windows 98 and alternative ways of faxing.
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