My Mum has replied to my fax (another large fax userbase, the deaf - certainly the older ones anyway), so that means: * my Mum's alive * her fax machine is working * my fax machine is working * and the ID feilds all look good (except for my Mum's machine, which is an hour out :)
DuncanMcC: Faxes are still a receiptable form of communication, e-mail is not (how many times have you e-mailed something important to find out sometime later that, "naa, we never got your e-mail" - what can you do?).
Conseqeuently, registererd mail is still doing quite well.
I can request a read reciept by email. I know of plenty of faxes that havent arrived due to the recieving fax being out of paper, eating the paper etc. Not to mention seeing faxes that are far too dark or light to read and are therefore not worth the paper they were printed on.
More modern machines have a memory but even that isn't foolproof.
Yeah, for important/formal things that would normally be posted, fax is very much alive and kicking. The alternative is to send an email with a scanned letter attached. Email is fine if you know who you are sending to, but if you just want to communicate with company x without knowing who specifically to go to, fax is often the way.
Of course, just because you are faxing as a means of sending something doesn't mean you necessarily have a fax machine at either end sending/receiving the fax transmission - you can send and receive via email.. or send faxes via a fax machine and receive via email.
DuncanMcC: Faxes are still a receiptable form of communication, e-mail is not (how many times have you e-mailed something important to find out sometime later that, "naa, we never got your e-mail" - what can you do?).
Conseqeuently, registererd mail is still doing quite well.
I can request a read reciept by email. I know of plenty of faxes that havent arrived due to the recieving fax being out of paper, eating the paper etc. Not to mention seeing faxes that are far too dark or light to read and are therefore not worth the paper they were printed on.
More modern machines have a memory but even that isn't foolproof.
E-mail read requests are only supported by some e-mail clients - and don't have to be acknowledged (I *never* do :) ).
It's *good* that you *know* that your recipient fax has not been received (for whatever reason) - and that's my point.
Yeah, it is old technology - see my earlier post - but as others have mentioned already, it still has it's place. And those places thesedays typically use it as receiptable, proven communication. For everything else, I'm sure they *do* use e-mail.
So back on topic, anyone know of a fax-back testing number in NZ? :) - not that I need it - but it could be handy in the future.
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