Today I had something happen to me that hasn't happened to me for a long time...
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I got a phone call and when I answered, it was a fax machine.
That is all.
BMW E38 with a fax machine, VHS, car phone and TV for your time:
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We've been trying to reach you about your vehicles extended skkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooo eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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I very occasionally encounter a business that wants me to fax something and specifically does not want an emailed PDF instead. I guess some people really value their comfortable work flow.
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@manwich said in Today I had something happen to me that hasn't happened to me for a long time...:
BMW E38 with a fax machine, VHS, car phone and TV for your time:
LOL, though I have to give a slight deduction because it’s not a CRT.
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@chariotoflove said in Today I had something happen to me that hasn't happened to me for a long time...:
I very occasionally encounter a business that wants me to fax something and specifically does not want an emailed PDF instead
Is a fax somehow more secure and less hackable?
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@ttyymmnn said in Today I had something happen to me that hasn't happened to me for a long time...:
@chariotoflove said in Today I had something happen to me that hasn't happened to me for a long time...:
I very occasionally encounter a business that wants me to fax something and specifically does not want an emailed PDF instead
Is a fax somehow more secure and less hackable?
Don’t see how. A signature is a signature.
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I guess I meant, is it harder to intercept and steal the document?
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@ttyymmnn Or maybe it's easier but no one thinks to try to intercept faxes anymore.
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@manwich Apparently my cell phone # is like one digit off some health care service, and, from time to time, I'll get DAYS of fax calls, even after I've looked up whoever's trying to fax me to tell them to kindly fuck off.
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@manwich I used to get that a lot at the bank I worked at until last year - also, apparently, spam faxes are still a thing, I did not know that, wild stuff.
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@chariotoflove @ttyymmnn Might be a legal thing: laws can be a very long way behind technology. There are certainly some countries where banks are allowed to accept a photocopy or fax, but not an emailed doc or scan, simply because the law explicitly says what they can do and it predates email and scanners.
(Overseas banks are one of the banes of my wife's professional life: as a consequence of dinner table ranting I therefore know much more than I ever wanted to about offshore banking. If you ever need to persuade a Channel Islands bank to go find the cardboard box in the basement in which they keep your records and tell you how much of your money they have, or to truck gold bars across an international border for some totally legitimate reason, I can fix you up).
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Makes sense.
And thanks, I’ll file that amongst the many skills available to me through my Oppo affiliation!
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@chariotoflove are they businesses in Japan? Apparently faxing is still very prevalent over there.
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@snuze said in Today I had something happen to me that hasn't happened to me for a long time...:
@chariotoflove are they businesses in Japan? Apparently faxing is still very prevalent over there.
Nah, usually small local operations.
