3 ms·
"For important calls, I use a land line that serves as my fax line. If I receive a call on my cellphone, I try to keep it short, or I call back from my fax line
by T_S_ 16y ago
"For important calls, I use a land line that serves as my fax line. If I receive a call on my cellphone, I try to keep it short, or I call back from my fax line."
Why aren't faxes obsolete? Over 10 years since President Clinton e-signed the e-signature law into place. About 150 years since the first e-signature (over telegraph). Seems like an opportunity missed here.
- wazoox 16y agoThey certainly are obsolete. I'm nearly 40 and I managed to send no more than 2 faxes in my whole professional life. I don't seem to having done it once in the past 8 years.
- sachitgupta 16y agoEven when I do, I end up using an online service like http://www.hellofax.com/ http://www.hellofax.com/. Works really well!
- danpker 16y agoThey're definitely not obsolete, at least outside of technology companies. Many businesses use a fax machine on a daily basis to send documents and order forms, as it's much easier than scanning things and then emailing them.
- dangrossman 16y agoBanks still like them, for some reason. Merchant accounts always ask for chargeback rebuttals by fax.
- joe_the_user 16y agoWhy aren't faxes obsolete? They are. The new, advanced use for your old fax line is as a platform for the new, dedicated POTS voice lines that are coming in to obsolete your unreliable legacy mobile phone... (this is Scott Adams, after all)
- pak 16y agoBecause it still isn't trivial to hook up a machine to a jack and send documents to other people with one button press. (Try setting up a copier that is supposed to email PDF's over the LAN and see what I mean. It's at least 10x more complicated to get working.)