OT: Sharing a telephone line with a fax machine?

[Suicide Junkie]

A fax is just a telephone call, like dial-up modems.

If you know a fax is coming, you can just unplug the answering machine, and plug in the fax. Then once its done, put things back.

You might even be able to buy a little A/B switch box to quickly do that from radio shack. If not you could always make one out of duct tape and loose wires