On Tue, Apr 7, 2026, 20:23 o1bigtenor via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote: Well any time on must have a proven paper trail - - - fax works - - - email
does NOT.
I personally know of instances where such a blanket assertion is provably incorrect. This is simply a matter of inertia. Fax works well enough, and -- especially in bureaucratic processes -- sometimes there's simply no incentive to upgrade. Flexibility is on the side of digital. One can easily print any email. But doing OCR on most faxes can be challenging. It's also more private, usually easier to direct an email to a single person than to direct a printed fax sent to a departmental machine. However, unquestionably, laziness is on the side of fax, and that can often matter a lot. Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56