Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: nvuxr!deej@bellcore.bellcore.com (David Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Networks Considered Harmful - For Electronic Mail Message-ID: Date: 1 Sep 89 18:16:08 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ Lines: 14 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 342, message 7 of 10 In article , munnari!ucsvc.unimelb. edu.au!U5434122@uunet.uu.net writes: > How did they convince the first business to buy a fax machine, anyway??? Fax has, since its introduction, been very popular in Japan. When you consider the Japanese alphabetS -- three alphabets, thousands of characters, itermingled in almost all writing, plus the occasional "western" characters -- fax makes a lot more sense than email... -- David G Lewis ...!bellcore!nvuxr!deej "If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower."