Re: Is Fax Dead Yet?

On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 10:43:56 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
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"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Case in point: Yesterday before lunch someone needed to see a copy of a
document, quickly. Internet was already off, plus I had to leave in about 30
seconds. Now try that situation via email attachment. I just slapped it onto
the fax machine, keyed in the number, hit "Send", done. Took less than the
30secs I had.

Not to be too much of a foil here, Joerg, but there are plenty of scanners/MFP
machines out there that can directly e-mail a PDF from a scanned paper
document. (Everywhere I've worked in the past 5+ years now has had one...
they plug into your Ethernet network and then connect directly through
whatever your Internet connection is...)

Typing in an e-mail address does take longer than dialing a phone number,
though. :-) And you've made some good points that FAX definitely has some
points in its favor over e-mail, but I'm not convinced those are compelling
enough that FAX machines are going to survive much longer.


I have several billing situations where I E-mail the invoice, the
responsible engineer signs it off and FAXes it back to me. Then I
scan it and E-mail to their accounts payable department ;-)

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  • Re: Is Fax Dead Yet?
    ... Internet was already off, plus I had to leave in about 30 seconds. ... Not to be too much of a foil here, Joerg, but there are plenty of scanners/MFP machines out there that can directly e-mail a PDF from a scanned paper document. ... mine are nowadays very often accepted as PDF sans signature. ...
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  • Re: Is Fax Dead Yet?
    ... Internet was already off, plus I had to leave in about 30 ... machines out there that can directly e-mail a PDF from a scanned paper ... enough that FAX machines are going to survive much longer. ... mine are nowadays very often accepted as PDF sans signature. ...
    (sci.electronics.design)
  • Re: Is Fax Dead Yet?
    ... Internet was already off, plus I had to leave in about 30 seconds. ... Not to be too much of a foil here, Joerg, but there are plenty of scanners/MFP machines out there that can directly e-mail a PDF from a scanned paper document. ...
    (sci.electronics.design)
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