I sent one of those.<p>I was surprised when I got an email the next day from my congressman thanking me for contacting them and promising a longer reply once they caught up on their backlog.<p>Whether they OCR'ed it or had some intern doing data entry, either way, they at least extracted my email address from the fax and emailed me, giving me the feeling someone noticed it.
I'm curious who uses HelloFax. There is a similar service (can't remember the name) that does the same thing for snail mail.<p>It seems like both have a strong advocacy product, either combined or separately. I can't imagine actually using these services in my day-to-day (but I may lack imagination), but I can definitely see where they could market it to large non-profits and NGO's.<p>Anyone from HelloFax who can speak to who their user base and thoughts of making advocacy part of the product?
And 15,000 faxes not read. Moreover 15,000 people thinking they did something useful, without having done anything useful at all.<p>In my interviews with Congressional staff who actually work on correspondence desks, they laugh at people sending faxes in and come right out and say that sending faxes, vs any other method of communications, is ineffective.<p>I understand that HelloFax wants to market itself. But this campaign does more harm than good.