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Listmates,

I can't remember the last time I used my fax number.  Everything is scanned and sent by email now.  I pay $30/month for the fax number and am thinking about discontinuing it.  Have others done this as well?

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Barbara Nelson
Forensic Vocational Consultant
barbnelsonimarc1@gmail.com
Boise, ID United States
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Yes, I ditched it too. I also recall a conversation I had with some much younger staff a few years back about that as well as the fact that I was still paying huge, several hundred dollar bills per month for yellow pages ads. They looked at me as if I was from outer space. Money down the freakin' drain. No one under like maybe "ancient" uses any of that stuff.

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Scott T. Stipe, MA, CRC, CDMS, IPEC, D/ABVE
Certified Rehabilitation Counselor
Board Certified Vocational Expert
Scott Stipe & Associates, Inc.
DBA Career Directions Northwest
4110 SE Hawthorne Blvd
#188
Portland, Oregon, 97214
(503)234-4484
(503)234-4126 fax
email: sstipe@careerdirectionsnw.com
website: www.careerdirectionsnw.com
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-29-2022 14:08
From: Barbara Nelson
Subject: fax numbers

Listmates,

I can't remember the last time I used my fax number.  Everything is scanned and sent by email now.  I pay $30/month for the fax number and am thinking about discontinuing it.  Have others done this as well?

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Barbara Nelson
Forensic Vocational Consultant
barbnelsonimarc1@gmail.com
Boise, ID United States
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Original Message:
Sent: 6/29/2022 2:09:00 PM
From: Barbara K. Nelson
Subject: fax numbers

Listmates,

I can't remember the last time I used my fax number.  Everything is scanned and sent by email now.  I pay $30/month for the fax number and am thinking about discontinuing it.  Have others done this as well?

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Barbara Nelson
Forensic Vocational Consultant
barbnelsonimarc1@gmail.com
Boise, ID United States
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Original Message:
Sent: 6/29/2022 2:20:00 PM
From: Ellen Darrow Fernandez
Subject: RE: fax numbers

I have metrofax and it's $4 per month

Original Message:
Sent: 6/29/2022 2:09:00 PM
From: Barbara K. Nelson
Subject: fax numbers

Listmates,

I can't remember the last time I used my fax number.  Everything is scanned and sent by email now.  I pay $30/month for the fax number and am thinking about discontinuing it.  Have others done this as well?

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Barbara Nelson
Forensic Vocational Consultant
barbnelsonimarc1@gmail.com
Boise, ID United States
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Original Message:
Sent: 6/29/2022 2:39:00 PM
From: Katherine S. Dunlap
Subject: RE: fax numbers

I do still get faxes - especially from physicians' offices.  So I have an efax that I pay $10/month for.  I use Rapidfax.  

Katherine S. Dunlap, MS, LCPC, CRC, CLCP
Dunlap Rehabilitation Services LLC
PO Box 1826
Livingston, MT 59047
she/her

406-222-0814
866-354-9411 fax
dunlaprehab@gmail.com

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Original Message:
Sent: 6/29/2022 2:20:00 PM
From: Ellen Darrow Fernandez
Subject: RE: fax numbers

I have metrofax and it's $4 per month

Original Message:
Sent: 6/29/2022 2:09:00 PM
From: Barbara K. Nelson
Subject: fax numbers

Listmates,

I can't remember the last time I used my fax number.  Everything is scanned and sent by email now.  I pay $30/month for the fax number and am thinking about discontinuing it.  Have others done this as well?

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Barbara Nelson
Forensic Vocational Consultant
barbnelsonimarc1@gmail.com
Boise, ID United States
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The only reason that I have kept a (dedicated) fax number all these years is because of the notion that faxes are secure, whereas unencrypted emails are not.
As I said, it is a notion.   Perhaps others more tech savvy than I might confirm or dispel the notion.  For the moment, I believe that what I learned long ago about this is still true.
My fax software costs $7.95/mo. with Faxage.  Incoming faxes arrive in one of my existing email addresses which I select, with the presumption that the "unsafe" transmission in "cyber" has been satisfied.   As for outgoing faxes, I temporarily plug into my home phone (land line, yes, I have one) and send it out that way.  
Would an email "send/receive" be quicker?   Yes.   
The question to me is one of safeguarding HIPAA regulations.
Meanwhile, my encryption software (ZixMail) works most of the time, except that some (larger companies) on the receiving end say that their system may not readily allow such emails to readily be received.  That is when a fax is used in lieu.

So, what is the update on "security."-- if anyone may please let me know the latest?     Thanks.    Until that question is clearer to my satisfaction, the fax stays, here.   :)

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Bob Paré, MS, CRC, LRC, CDMS, FVE, ABVE/D
rpare@consultativerehab.com
Mt. Laurel, NJ. Tel: 609-531-2529
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-29-2022 14:08
From: Barbara Nelson
Subject: fax numbers

Listmates,

I can't remember the last time I used my fax number.  Everything is scanned and sent by email now.  I pay $30/month for the fax number and am thinking about discontinuing it.  Have others done this as well?

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Barbara Nelson
Forensic Vocational Consultant
barbnelsonimarc1@gmail.com
Boise, ID United States
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Original Message:
Sent: 6/30/2022 1:05:00 PM
From: Robert J. Pare'
Subject: RE: fax numbers

The only reason that I have kept a (dedicated) fax number all these years is because of the notion that faxes are secure, whereas unencrypted emails are not.
As I said, it is a notion.   Perhaps others more tech savvy than I might confirm or dispel the notion.  For the moment, I believe that what I learned long ago about this is still true.
My fax software costs $7.95/mo. with Faxage.  Incoming faxes arrive in one of my existing email addresses which I select, with the presumption that the "unsafe" transmission in "cyber" has been satisfied.   As for outgoing faxes, I temporarily plug into my home phone (land line, yes, I have one) and send it out that way.  
Would an email "send/receive" be quicker?   Yes.   
The question to me is one of safeguarding HIPAA regulations.
Meanwhile, my encryption software (ZixMail) works most of the time, except that some (larger companies) on the receiving end say that their system may not readily allow such emails to readily be received.  That is when a fax is used in lieu.

So, what is the update on "security."-- if anyone may please let me know the latest?     Thanks.    Until that question is clearer to my satisfaction, the fax stays, here.   :)

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Bob Paré, MS, CRC, LRC, CDMS, FVE, ABVE/D
rpare@consultativerehab.com
Mt. Laurel, NJ. Tel: 609-531-2529
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-29-2022 14:08
From: Barbara Nelson
Subject: fax numbers

Listmates,

I can't remember the last time I used my fax number.  Everything is scanned and sent by email now.  I pay $30/month for the fax number and am thinking about discontinuing it.  Have others done this as well?

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Barbara Nelson
Forensic Vocational Consultant
barbnelsonimarc1@gmail.com
Boise, ID United States
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