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From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Looking faxwards
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Date: 16 Jan 90 16:21:17 GMT
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>   Can you make a faxed signature legally binding?  Not in many countries,
>   as the resolution is too low to make definative handwriting verification
>   possible.

This story may be apocryphal but perhaps someone on this list knows
the source:

I have heard a few times that the first "faxes" were signature
facsimiles and transmitted via telegraph lines over 100 years ago,
something like a pen moving here and a pen moving there in order to
create a remote, binding signature.

Anyone know if it's true?

        -Barry Shein

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