Kallu Wiegand wrote:
> Together with the timestamp quite important for a lawyer.

It may look that way, but all you have is a snippet of (thermal) paper
with letters on it. Fax is the only thing I can fake totally and
convincingly. I have done so several times in the past.

In all cases I got a complaint, that my fax was not signed. Huh? What?
Since when has does the  photocopy of a signature carry any legal
weight?

So what I did was resend the fax, "signing" it and for good measure had
my "signature" confirmed as genuine by the countersignatures of the
branch manager and my peronal adviser. To make quite sure everything was
absolutely genuine and not faked in any way I did not send that fax from
home but "sent" it from a fax machine in the branch itself.

So yes, you do get a report that the transmission was successful. You
can NOT be sure the result is legible, only that the machine was not
able to detect the problem with its printer. And you have no reliable
proof whatsoever. That courts and judges may treat it as such should
make you very careful and perhaps stop recieving faxes altogether.

So as a control for yourself with doubtful legal value as real proof you
can also request delivery and read receipts for your email. They serve
the same purpose just as well.

On the other hand lawyers may be ignorant and illiterate idiots, but
they do have power. So maybe you are right and it does pay to cater to
their whims, however worthless and ill advised they may be.

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