I knew this thread would bring up some ironies. For the record it's all in their minds. E-Mails have been upheld in the US Court system as legal documents. And those people afraid or distrusting of e-mail have only to give me their fax number and watch how quickly I can send them bogus fax documents. Like I said, it's all in their minds. Faxing is no safer or more secure than any other form of comminication. Its simply a waste of ink, toner and paper as far as I'm concerned.
I just finished an assignment at a dinosaur of a company which still prints of sets of huge D and E size drawings for their estimating department. When I showed them the things you can do with a software package like Bluebeam Revu, they scoffed at it because it costs $189 per seat. I showed them how they were wasting $200 to $500 each week printing out huge sets of drawings. In just on month they could have bought enough licensed copied of Revu to account for this and then stop printing so much paper which only ends up in the trash. Their secretaries were still sending out proposals via fax even when the client requested a PDF be sent by e-mail. Their reason for this was, "This is the only way we know how and we've done it like this for so long, we don't want to change." IMHO...Faxing is so last century. ________________________________ From: David Brodbeck <g...@gull.us> To: FreeBSD Questions <questi...@freebsd.org> Sent: Fri, May 6, 2011 1:30:58 PM Subject: Re: Sending a Fax On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Bill Tillman <btillma...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I read the other replies to your post so let me put in my 2 cents worth. For >the > last few years, I have basically abandoned faxing in favor of e-mailing PDF and > other document files. Paperless is not only more efficient but its green too. Believe it or not, there are industries where faxing is still the norm. Many industrial suppliers want purchase orders by fax. It also seems to be the common way that pharmacies communicate with doctors' offices. These are conservative industries where email (and especially, email attachments) are still viewed with some suspicion. A lot of times these days the actual endpoint is a digital fax system, though; sometimes the fax never actually reaches paper. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
