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Leon[_7_]

On 1/7/2017 7:33 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 17:53:37 -0600, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote:

On 1/7/2017 4:18 PM, John McCoy wrote:
Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote in news:x9mdneNfKupBnuzFnZ2dnUU7-
:

LOL.... I remember about 20 years ago wondering why FAX was still being
used over e-mail. Only now is Fax falling to e-mail and PDF's.

Mostly because of Asians. Ideographic languages like Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean, with thousands of characters, don't
lend themselves to being typed into emails. So "hand written
then faxed" messages remained the norm there until quite recently.

John

An attorney friend mentioned to me, about 18 years ago, that FAX was the
only form of electronic document transfer that was recognized as
acceptable in the American Law system.

A FAX is considered a "remote original document" - it cannot be
altered in transmission.

Well "cannot" be altered is relative. We got FAX, at work, that were
indistinguishable. If you do not have a clean line or a good fax
machine to send, the receiver gets altered documents. ;~)

But I understand what you are saying, a FAX cannot be hacked and changed
so to speak.

A locked PDF is as close as you can get digitally, and is still not
generally accepted as an "original" legally.