On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 14:56 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: > Re: Faxing, I think I'd echo what everyone else says about e-mailing.
I'll not dispute the desirability of email over fax, but remember: you have to give the customer what s/he wants. We have vegetable brokers who come into the office at 5:30 in the morning, and who expect to see a price list and truck manifests in the hopper, which they snatch up on the way to the coffee pot. We've offered email, but they don't want it. We have small farmers, at the dirt end of nowhere, in sometimes un-air-conditioned offices. Connectivity is limited to a couple of 1FBs, and to them... fax machines are a new technology. They want to receive orders via fax, and we accommodate them. > For the occasional fax you can purchase e-mail-to-faxing service And don't forget: you email something and it's like shooting an arrow into the fog. No guaranteed delivery, no notification of success or failure (unless you do something like AS2). With fax, you have a reasonable idea whether the document was received. Any serious email-to-fax service has to be able to provide you with the final disposition of your document. Really, that's a big deal. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
