Folks like me keep faxing cool while others think eFax is some busted website needing eFixing. But let me tell you straight — I can fax a page or two to over 100 numbers in under an hour for less than a dollar. Yeah, I’m bragging. But it’s not for the ego. It’s because facsimile deserves respect. It deserves a comeback. I’m out here trying to make fax cool again.
Why? Because when you want just one physical page to make it from one corner of the world to another, and you want it to exist nowhere else but between two machines, faxing stands alone. Beam me up. Faster and cloudier is not always better. Prove me wrong.
Faxing in the Fields That Matter
Look, anyone can shoot an encrypted peer-to-peer file transfer across the net. And sure, that’s slick. But in the fields that actually matter — Government, Medical, and Legal — faxing is still the rock-solid, no-questions-asked, “it got there, it got read” technology.
When someone pipes up and says faxing is old, unnecessary, and irrelevant, I smile and say:
“For most folks, sure. Not me.”
I use encrypted email. I use secure file transfers. I know all the tricks. But faxing? Faxing is what you do when it’s important, confidential, and needs a guaranteed read, even if it ends up in the shredder five minutes later. Someone had to lay eyes on that piece of paper. You can’t unread it.
The Secret Sauce: One Page, One Transmission, One Verification
Faxing is beautiful because it’s point-to-point. There’s no middleman. No server holding your data. No third-party cloud storage. And when it’s done? You get that sweet, sweet transmission verification report. It’s proof it was received at the other end!
Ever tried sending a one-page PDF through some fancy secure app to a government office? Yeah, let me know how that goes when their email bounces it back, or their web portal times out, or the file format isn’t supported. Fax machines? They’re still sitting there humming like it’s 1989, and they never left.
Still Alive on the Airwaves
And don’t even get me started on how cool faxing over the air still is. I spend my nights scrolling through the SDR (Software Defined Radio) and, every now and then, there it is:
The sound of AT code fax tones. Alive. Undeniable. Sometimes found in the Frequency Modulation. Sometimes via Amplitude Modulation. We breath it in. Our nervous systems may even pick up on it without our knowing….
Like OS/2 in the tech underworld, faxing has survived everything thrown at it. It’s got more lives than 100 cats. And while the rest of the world sold its soul to always-on, always-connected, always-exploitable cloud services, fax just kept purring along, quietly doing the job no one else wanted to do.
The Power of Robofaxing: From Linux to Congress
Now, for those of you thinking faxing is just for sending grocery lists to Grandma, let me introduce you to the magic of robofaxing. Yeah, that’s right. We’re talking about automated, mass fax operations that can hit every single member of Congress with a document you want them to read.
Picture this:
You’ve got a CSV file of every Congressional fax number. You roll up on your Linux box, fire up the efax command (patched with a little efix love for the impression), loop it through that list, and BAM! One page, personalized, sent to hundreds of offices across the country. Each with a transmission report. Each on real paper in real hands.
Email gets filtered. Tweets get ignored. Phone calls get sent to voicemail. But a stack of faxes rolling off the machine with your message on it? That gets noticed. It’s hard to deny a literal pile of paper with your name on it sitting on someone’s desk. That’s how you make an issue real.
Fax Isn’t Dead. It’s Just Underground.
So yeah, go ahead and tell me faxing is obsolete. I’ll be over here making faxing cool again. Not because I live in the past, but because I know what works when it matters.
Government? They still demand signed, physical copies.
Medical? Faxing is often the only legal way to send sensitive records.
Legal? Court filings via fax are still a thing in plenty of jurisdictions.
And me? I’m just here bragging for the culture.
Because the next time someone says “Why fax?” I’ll hit them with the classic:
“How else do you send a single, physical page across the planet, have it read, and get a receipt — all without leaving a digital trace?”
Fax on, my friends. Fax on.
