On 29 Apr 2012, at 10:51 , LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 28, 2012, at 20:29, Vince LaMonica <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sad as it may be, there are many businesses which still operate with faxes >> and many industries which aren't moving away from it any time soon. > > I've found the secret to dealing with those is simply saying, "it's > impossible for me to fax. I don't have a fax or a phone line."
Try that with some people, in particular certain government people or certain educational people who must live by government rules, and you'll find that your alternatives boil down to: 1 hand-carrying the document to them 2 never doing business with them For example, Palm Beach State College, the local community college in Palm Beach County WILL NOT ACCEPT certain documents by email. It's fax or original hard copy, your choice. They site a regulation laid down by the State of Florida. I don't know if other institutions in Florida use that interpretation. I do know that I cannot email my end-of-term workbooks, with student grades, to them. If I want to continue to get paid I gotta follow _their_ rules. > > Amazingly, email then becomes an option, or I go through one of the many > online fax services, but it's been a few years since I had to do that. Even > dealing with government agencies this has worked. Not around here. Government simply will not budge. Fax or original hard copy, nothing else is acceptable. > > The funny story was a few years ago somone saying a fax was a legal > requirement because they had to have an 'original signature'. The usual reason around here is 'I said so. You want to get paid, do it my way.' _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
