Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 07:30:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Sending a Fax Message-ID: <507118.67900.qm@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=E7fhbUomaVqjhQAr8aR8wX52W_g@mail.gmail.com> References: <723BE905-95AC-4B07-AD31-3D149F06527E@lafn.org> <462351.71539.qm@web36505.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <BANLkTi=E7fhbUomaVqjhQAr8aR8wX52W_g@mail.gmail.com>
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I knew this thread would bring up some ironies. For the record it's all in = their =0Aminds. E-Mails have been upheld in the US Court system as legal do= cuments. And =0Athose people afraid or distrusting of e-mail have only to g= ive me their fax =0Anumber and watch how quickly I can send them bogus fax = documents. Like I said, =0Ait's all in their minds. Faxing is no safer or m= ore secure than any other form =0Aof comminication. Its simply a waste of i= nk, toner and paper as far as I'm =0Aconcerned.=0A=0AI just finished an ass= ignment at a dinosaur of a company which still prints of =0Asets of huge D = and E size drawings for their estimating department. When I =0Ashowed them = the things you can do with a software package like Bluebeam Revu, =0Athey s= coffed at it because it costs $189 per seat. I showed them how they were = =0Awasting $200 to $500 each week printing out huge sets of drawings. In ju= st on =0Amonth they could have bought enough licensed copied of Revu to acc= ount for this =0Aand then stop printing so much paper which only ends up in= the trash. Their =0Asecretaries were still sending out proposals via fax e= ven when the client =0Arequested a PDF be sent by e-mail. Their reason for = this was, "This is the only =0Away we know how and we've done it like this = for so long, we don't want to =0Achange."=0A=0AIMHO...Faxing is so last cen= tury.=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A________________________________=0AFrom: David Brodbeck= <gull@gull.us>=0ATo: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org>=0ASent: Fri= , May 6, 2011 1:30:58 PM=0ASubject: Re: Sending a Fax=0A=0AOn Fri, May 6, 2= 011 at 3:47 AM, Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> wrote:=0A> I read the o= ther replies to your post so let me put in my 2 cents worth. For =0A>the=0A= > last few years, I have basically abandoned faxing in favor of e-mailing P= DF =0Aand=0A> other document files. Paperless is not only more efficient bu= t its green too.=0A=0ABelieve it or not, there are industries where faxing = is still the=0Anorm.=A0 Many industrial suppliers want purchase orders by f= ax.=A0 It also=0Aseems to be the common way that pharmacies communicate wit= h doctors'=0Aoffices.=A0 These are conservative industries where email (and= =0Aespecially, email attachments) are still viewed with some suspicion.=0AA= lot of times these days the actual endpoint is a digital fax system,=0Atho= ugh; sometimes the fax never actually reaches paper.=0A____________________= ___________________________=0Afreebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list=0A= http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions=0ATo unsubscrib= e, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=0A
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