I have found the article by David Strom. He hates faxes but he prefers the Internet Fax because of some advantages. Here they are:
“I hate faxes. When I had a fax machine in my office, I would arrive in the morning and see the accumulation of restaurant menus, insurance come-ons, and other junk that arrived during the night. Plus, I was always running out of the special paper or the ink cartridges would dry out because I would so seldom use it. There is a better way, and I want to review your options with how you can connect your email to your faxing needs.
The idea is a simple one: the Internet fax service provider maintains your fax machine and assigns everything that comes into your “number” to your email inbox. For outbound faxes, you either send to a special email address, or else they supply a special Web or Windows software utility that can send the fax over the Internet. There is no muss, no fuss, and no need for a fax machine.
I like Internet faxing because it has several advantages over ordinary faxes. First, you can make use of private fax numbers, so no one else in your office can see your communications. Remember when someone’s confidential memo was shared around the water cooler because it was lying on the fax machine? Those days are over, because the fax never has to be printed out and can be viewed on your PC.
Second, when you are on the road and don’t want to share your faxes with your hotel’s staffers, Internet faxing makes a lot of sense. Since the fax gets directed to your email inbox, you don’t have to worry about where you are when you travel.”
