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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Request for poll of ten best/worst products of 88
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Date: 5 Jan 89 20:49:50 GMT
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Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Organization: Wimsey Associates, Vancouver, BC.
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>>> The losers category:
>>>         The proliferation of cheap FAX machines, X percent of which attach
>>>         to computers.  Not that there arent legitimate uses for a FAX
>>>         machine here and there, but sometimes I think American businessmen
>>>         must all take stupid pills;  most if not all of the uses I actually
>>>         see FAX machines being put to could be far more effectively and
>>>         inexpensively handled by cheap modems sending WordPerfect formatted
>>>         files over the phone lines using Procomm.  Media hype wins again...
>

Interesting sideline, just after I hit the send key for my last message I
heard an interesting report on NPR.

Somewhere in the "bay" area a company called Grocery Express will take you
Fax'd order for up to $100 of groceries and deliver it to you for $5.

People seem to like the convience. One woman interviewed now works at home
(so she can look after her baby) and has an in home fax.  It would seem that 
a Fax machine will be the next yuppie phenomana. 

-- 
Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl     Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532