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The sender can confirm that a fax has been received correctly on the other end. It will even print out a confirmation page with "message completely received". C
by octocode 8y ago
The sender can confirm that a fax has been received correctly on the other end. It will even print out a confirmation page with "message completely received". Can't do the same with emails, so there's no pretending you never received it because it was caught in some filter somewhere outside of your control.
Overnighting is similar in that the carrier should provide confirmation that a package has been successfully delivered.
- stock_toaster 8y agoUnrelated to anything, but... There are many fax vendors (sfax for example), that provide "virtual fax machines", and that email you received faxes. Those emails could get lost. The fax service could lose the data. Just because a fax was received by a "fax machine", doesn't necessarily mean someone actually got it. Certified mail is probably a better "someone received it" option, if that is the desired requirement.
- adrianN 8y agoI'd expect that you can then sue the fax vendor?
- stock_toaster 8y agoProbably something in the ToS about forced arbitration or "best effort delivery", with how things go these day. :/
- ninedays 8y agoJust because a fax is sent doesn't mean that the receiver read the content. Were there even details about the issue on the fax or was it yet another "call me now in order for me to explain the issue while I could do it by email but I want you to give me money first" type of thing? Can we blame someone to not respond to a fax that doesn't include any details about the issue or how to reproduce it?
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- detaro 8y agoThe faxed document is linked from the article, no need to speculate what it did and did not include. Hint: as the article says, it includes full reproduction details for the bug.
- moftz 8y agoJust because certified mail is sent and signed for doesn't mean the receiver read the content. The point is that someone got the message, what the recipient does with that message is totally on them.