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From: dennis@CPAC.WASHINGTON.EDU (Dennis Gentry)
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Subject: Looking faxwards
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Date: 15 Jan 90 22:52:39 GMT
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   Date: 15 Jan 90 11:44:59 GMT
   From: uw-beaver!harvard!think.com!samsung!munnari.oz.au!cluster!metro!natmlab.dap.csiro.au!ditsyda!macuni!mqccsunc!ifarqhar  (Ian Farquhar)
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   [Evan's comments continue, refering to Michael's original statement]
   >	I quite agree.  Most important to the business community:  Can
   >you email a signature on a contract?  No.

   Can you make a faxed signature legally binding?  Not in many countries,
   as the resolution is too low to make definative handwriting verification
   possible.

I purchased a house here in Washington with my brother who lives
in California.  It would not have been possible without the
ability to fax signatures on documents.  The deal closed with
original signatures, which had been express mailed, but there
were many preliminary documents for which a fax signature was
perfectly acceptable.

Dennis
(dennis@cpac.washington.edu)