Receiving a fax through email

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by lumberjim

if he's going to be obdurate and refuse to use modern tech, make him mail it through the post.

I've tried, but so far he keeps finding ways to bring it in person instead, even though it takes him an hour to get to my house. He gets excited when he has something for me and thinks the post office is too slow.

Originally Posted by BigV

Does casa de Fobble have a landline?

Yes, but the phone jacks in the walls of the house are not hooked up. The landline is over the cable TV, and the cable box sits very far away from the current location of the printer. To hardwire it would mean moving the printer permanently (not going to happen, there's no space for it anywhere near there,) moving the printer temporarily each time he wants to send a fax (also not going to happen, the fucker's heavy,) bringing a phone tech out to rewire the house properly (the wires are known to be damaged, it would be new wires from scratch,) or running one very long cable from the box to the printer (which would cross not one but two heavy-traffic hallways.)

It would be easier to just pay for an internet connection in his house. But the concept of that literally makes him angry. He wants to fax it over a traditional phone line, and he wants me to figure out how to receive it. Sometimes parents are just how they are, you know?