Doug McGarrett wrote: > On Saturday 22 September 2007 23:41, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > >> On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 23:24 -0400, BandiPat wrote: >> >>> On Saturday 22 September 2007, Fred A. Miller wrote: >>> >>>> 'Never needed to FAX much till now, so I've looking for a NON-Win >>>> modem and found this one USR has made. It's a tad pricey, but should >>>> work well, just in case someone else is in need of one. 'Ordered >>>> tonight. >>>> >>>> Fred >>>> >>> --------------- >>> >>> And a PDF or word processing file won't do for them through email? >>> Almost seems a bit archaic to have to resort to fax on a land line >>> modem, doesn't it? >>> >>> Lee >>> >> Wouldn't it be cheaper to just pick up an old fax machine? >> >> -- >> Ken Schneider >> UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 >> > For some reason, doctors and pharmacies live by FAX. You'd think that > there would be a world-wide medical data-base, but something about > privacy (read "insurance companies") keeps that from happening. There > may be other outfits that live by FAX. There used to be a program for > Windows that would let you send a FAX if you had a telephone modem. > There may be one for LINUX. I don't know if you could receive on the > computer. Probably nobody is still using a telephone modem. > > --doug > While encrypted email would certainly fix the privacy issue, some people are still stuck in the past. Also some, like the vet I take my pets to, have stopped using email because of problems with viruses etc. Of course, the solution to that problem is Linux.
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