On 7/17/19 1:10 PM, Kallu Wiegand wrote:
> Am 17.07.2019 at 13:03 Axel Berger wrote:
>
>> I have never considered them anything
>> else but toys for small children and people of similar intellectual and
>> technical ability like lawyers.
>
> There's one thing possibly unknown here, and that's the big advantage
> with FAX:
> FAX is not a one way thing like email, but a two way connection between
> the fax machines.
> The sending machine will only start sending after the receiving partner
> said: 'All OK here, paper ready, send your data'.
>
> Only if the data was receifed complete and OK and could be printed (all
> verified by transmisson software) the receifer will send back: 'OK got
> your data at [time, date]'.
> The sending machine will put that into its logfile und the sender has
> now a shure evidence that the sending was readable reproduced at the
> destination.
>
> Together with the timestamp quite important for a lawyer.
>
> PC-software-fax fakes the paper, and if the pc crashes later, that's at
> the expense of the receiver, the sender has the proof of delivery,
>
> Kallu

 I forget where or when I read it but a large part of the
user base says that the Fax machine was the greatest invention of
the past Century or two.  I was surprised but then I am not a person
in the sort of business that uses Fax, Part of it is for the reasons you
note above. When I had to send a Fax I went to a service bureau.   I do
not want digital Faxes hitting my printer and using up ink and supplies.

 

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