Friday, March 09, 2007

E-FAX WTF?

E-Fax WTF?
What am I missing?  The new name for the fax machine is scanner, not scammer. The chart above describes exactly the sequence I have used for 10 years to send documents via E-mail without any intermediary. Even in 1996 my scanner had a "Send E-mail" option. 30-Day Free trial?

I once asked my banker why I couldn't just send the documents he asked for by E-mail? Because, he answered, ''our e-mail won't accept messages large enough to contain the current Britney Spears crotch shot.'' Okay, then set up a central E-mail server for receiving ''faxes'' for gawd's sake. This is nuts, we've been to the Moon!
3/09/2007 07:32:00 AM 3 Comments

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Anonymous said...

Damn Rodger, do you really expect your bank to do all the things they do for you AND think, too?
Tim

3/9/07, 8:41 AM
Anonymous said...

A lot of business is still conducted thru fax. I saved a ton of $ with efax for a big auto parts company. Efax is free to RECEIVE faxes. The clerks were standing in line to receive faxes from customers. By setting them up on eFax, each clerk got their own phone number and it routed the fax-scanned docs directly to their email.

Hell no I didn't get a bonus for it.

Keith in Kingwood

3/9/07, 9:29 AM
Anonymous said...

Quite simply, there is zero, zip, nada security or privacy guaranteed to unencrypted email which is the primary reason to avoid including sensitive information. I suspect this same limitation applies to e-fax, but I've never used it and can't say for sure.

I do know I had to dope slap my lawyer to get him to stop discussing a case in progress via email, including trying to exchange drafts of pleadings, responses to interrogatories, etc. Cheap SOB wouldn't trade out 2 hours for me to set up his office with PGP, so now it's real faxes and the USPS.
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SkyhawkerD

3/10/07, 8:19 AM

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