Up until the last year or maybe two, fax was the only way a high school could submit a request for a change in information (address, spelling of a name) or a change in special accommodations for 504/IEP students (the initial request could be done online, but changes needed a fax) to College Board (SATs).
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The specialist sawbones that I see (unfortunately a lot of them) all require you to send stuff via fax. They refuse to open attachments to emails, in any format. They also donāt want details about your boo-boos in emails.
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go with eFax , , , , or other similar
eliminates all the hardware stuff.
a ueberr-fussy recipient cannot distinguish an e-fax from a on-the-desktop fax
machine.
used eFax for years , , , until my āincoming faxā volume hit zero comma zero
then again, Iām not a lawyer.
Yeah, we used that for awhile, but then our need for faxes dropped to virtually nothing, so we got rid of it. So once weāre set up in a new space, Iām going to NOT have a dedicated phone line set up for a fax. Thereās really no need with Emails, DocuSign, etc.
Bingo. There are plenty of electronic platforms that satisfy regulatory requirements for privacy and security. I just used DocuSign the other day, as a customer. My MDs all use HIPAA compliant portals. Theyāre not all the same portal, but I can access them all. Faxing is even worse. I canāt remember the last time I sent one - it wasnāt eFax, which I dropped, but it was some kind of limited use app.
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Well, Iām an Old. So I remember when you had to feed a single page onto a roller, press Start, and it would take 4 minutes/page (6 minutes if you needed āhigh clarityāā¦meaning they needed to be able to read it at the other end) for each page to be āreadā and sent through to the recipient. Which meant when you had a multi-page document, you had to be there to remove Pg 1, add Pg 2 to the roller, and resume scanning, etc. It printed on this super smooth, shiny paper. Which was a bitch to get lay flat and then file.
When I worked for American Broadcasting Companyās MIS Division in Hackensack, NJ in the mid-1980s, we sent urgent docs to HR at NYC headquarters that way if we had missed the daily courier between us and headquarters. And guess whose job it was to feed the rollers? Your first guess is the only one youāll need.
A Qwip could only send to another Qwip.
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We had a telefacimile machine available for our use in the Attorney Generalās office in ā¦ 1976. Magic!
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I am. Meh. No need these days. There are other, better platforms. Remember - if thereās a regulatory requirement, thereās a third party provider 
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I assumed that Quip was an acronym for some office junior, and was trying to figure it out. Then I scrolled downā¦Duh!
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Chowhound has been bought by Static Media and is using articles from food and recipe writers along with its own staff. Iām not finding the crowd-sourced threads that garnered it fame. Looks like there is substantial investment behind it.
https://twitter.com/ViperChill/status/1717502391975915751
What do you think would happen if you shut down an authoritative blog for a year then revived hundreds of articles?
ā Glen Allsopp š¾ (@ViperChill) October 26, 2023
What if the site was once so popular that closing its doors warranted an article in the New York Times?
We're about to find out, because Chowhound is back.
Iā¦ pic.twitter.com/WUIQVVm0Ku
Hat tip to Melanieās twitter
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Quick look suggests it doesnt look or feel like Chowhound. Nothing different from many other food websites and this one is clearly focussed on North America so zero interest for me.
I have no interest in this ānewā site, but isnāt it the same thing Ernie posted last week?
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And measurement is imperial system.
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Sorry - I looked but didnāt see Ernieās post about this at RIP Chowhound. If the mods want to delete this or move it, thatās fine.
Pretty much limited here to pints of beer and the weight of new born babies.
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Miles per hour, though, right? And human heights?
You measure newbornās weights in pints? Interesting!
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āA pint is a pound around the world.ā Except for the part where itās not 
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I think we are less on the radar than CH was.
The thing I miss that we seldom get here, but did get a lot there, was noobs popping in to ask for help with particular questions.
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yes, it generated a lot of discussion which would not otherwise have happened and brought in some good folks too, tho answering the inquiries about birthday and after theater locales got really old.
I like the intimacy of this forum but CH definitely had more reach and impact in its day.
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