Xref: utzoo news.groups:22670 alt.fax:792 comp.misc:9644 comp.mail.misc:3720 Path: utzoo!mnetor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!spdcc!eli From: eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.fax,comp.misc,comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: why is fax alt? Keywords: FAX server, Netware 2.15 Message-ID: <3474@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> Date: 25 Jul 90 12:09:18 GMT References: <17120@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1990Jul20.051009.24759@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <3423@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> <1990Jul24.221621.2509@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Reply-To: eli@ursa-major.spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) Lines: 24 xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >i wrote about computerfax: >>and voila -- a thermal-paper tree is saved. > >Sure, but why go to all that trouble to raise the cost of email from $0.0025 >(batched transmission) to $2.50 (long distance call)? that's a real intense cost analysis you've got there, KPD. >Fax is what you do when you're too lazy to hack the politics of making email >work right. what cogency! what an astute analysis! what a M A R O O N ! p.s. what are the "politics of making email work right" ??? are we talking about "email political correctness"?? guffaw. -- /eli eli@spdcc.com