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- Not all hotel owner/operator can write code. - Spam: We get tons of spam FAXes too. But compare to emails, way less spam. - Also, most of the people who sen
by newhotelowner 8y ago
- Not all hotel owner/operator can write code.
- Spam: We get tons of spam FAXes too. But compare to emails, way less spam.
- Also, most of the people who send out fax have a hard time scanning and emailing documents.
- wutbrodo 8y ago> Not all hotel owner/operator can write code. Yea, dont worry, I wasn't going for the "lol why doesn't everyone just learn Python and spin up a Docker container on ECS" trope. That's why I specified a lightweight piece of software, which is how everything used to work before the rise of the Web and mobile devices changed software distribution. > Also, most of the people who send out fax have a hard time scanning and emailing documents. Yes, this is the legacy third parties thing I was talking about. But this constraint doesn't have anything to do with the lack of a modern replacement for fax. On top of that, there are plenty of services (including free ones) that fake a fax number if necessary, with the standard caveat that inserting a service layer into your business workflow introduces risk. Note that I'm not suggesting that you switch: when the road meets the rubber, it's often the rational choice for businesses to stick with old technologies for a variety of reasons. I was just puzzled by your more-general wish for a modern equivalent of fax, when there have existed "modern equivalents of fax" for decades that are superior on pretty much every axis.
- sfopdxnonstop 8y agoNah people complained about software bloat before the internet too. They e been doing that since the invention of compilers.