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Sending a fax is a great way to legally prove someone has received a message without having to physically deliver it. I once worked for a company that was very
by mkl95 5y ago
Sending a fax is a great way to legally prove someone has received a message without having to physically deliver it.
I once worked for a company that was very unreliable when it came to paying their employees, and I tried to terminate my contract with a fax. There was only a small issue, they didn't have a fax machine.
- jasonlaramburu 5y agoIs a received fax any more legally binding than an email read receipt/pixel tracker?
- ale42 5y agoRead receipt pixel/trackers can't prove something has been read. Thunderbird for example doesn't load remote images by default, by design, as they can be used for tracking purposes (including by spammers).
- zabzonk 5y agoIANAL, but last year a bought a house in the UK, and all the conveyancing was done by email, except for one digital signature which used some third-party secure stuff for one particular document (can't remember exactly what, I'm afraid). No faxes.
- tupac_speedrap 5y agoHa, I bet the estate agent charged you thousands for that too even though its all remote.
- zabzonk 5y agoNope, about 800.00 GPB, which is a lot, but you are also buying insurance in case they f*ck up. The price was the same if they used paper. I don't normally like to say good things about solicitors (not estate agents, I was buying, so I didn't have to pay them, but I hate them too), but mostly they did OK.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoIn some countries like Austria: yes. We still support fax machines there for that reason
- Iv 5y agoYes, that's related to what I call the religion of paper. Here is its credo: Paper is official. Paper is non-falsifiable, especially if you stamp it. Paper can't lie. Paper comes with a date that is trustworthy. Paper can be sent through mail of fax. Paper can't be sent by email. Computers are where fakes are made, don't trust computers.