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From: dls@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (David L Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Networks considered harmful
Keywords: email fax
Message-ID: <6042@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 89 17:19:59 GMT
References: <8912190403.AA05387@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1250@toro.UUCP>
Reply-To: dls@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (David L Stevens)
Organization: PUCC UNIX Group
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	Well, one point that I haven't seen here yet is that Fax can send
arbitrary information where electronic mail, in its current state, is pretty
much limited to text.
	If Joe Shmoe, corporate executive, wants to send an idea somewhere
for comment and he's got sketches and notes, should he take a couple hours
to type it in and convert the figures to pic or PostScript, or should he
Fax the original? I know what I'd do...
	Fax can do everything e-mail can do (given that all parties have
Fax machines), but e-mail can't do everything that Fax can. Of course they'll
use Fax machines! This is surprising? There's something wrong with this?
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