Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Thursday 2007-09-27 at 07:19 -0400, James Knott wrote:
Faxes are so 20th century. ;-)
You are fortunate to think that.
Actually, if you're running KDE, you might want to look into
KDEprintfax. I used to use that, but I no longer use fax. I generally
email a PDF these days.
I know of many businesses here that do not have email, but they do have a
fax. And it costs me nothing, anyway.
And fax is a legal document, whereas an email is not.
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Example:
Here (Spain) there are many telephone and ISP companies. Contracting is
easy, over a phone. Cancelling the contract is difficult, even imposible:
they ignore it and continue charging your bank. The instructions include
sending a fax with the cancelling order on it, but they ignore it too.
Email, if possible at all, is ignored: they deny having received it.
The official solution is to send a "burofax" to the company: a fax sent
from the Post Office, with an stamped receipt, which is valid in court.
With that paper, the bank rescinds the orders without fear of retaliation
from the companies (yes: if you order the bank not to pay, the company can
sue you or put you directly in a black list and then you are denied credit
and things like that).
There is no way to send an officially signed email which reception can not
be denied or that can be accepted in court as a "real" communication that
took place. Sad, but true.
It is in fact dificult to send an email an certify its receipt... even for
geeks.
Actually, in some countries, such as Canada, a digitally signed email is
legally valid. While I don't know about email, a registered letter sent
to the recipient is considered delivered, even if they choose not to
accept it.
As for faxes, who's to say it didn't "accidentally" wind up in the
shredder. ;-)
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