Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Re^2: FAXes vs. EMAIL Message-ID: <7404@ficc.uu.net> Date: 22 Dec 89 19:16:38 GMT References: <8912191654.AA01716@interlan.interlan.com> <7388@ficc.uu.net> <1989Dec22.031543.606@ultra.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 20 In article <1989Dec22.031543.606@ultra.com> shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay) writes: > As simple as this seems, it's already beyond what a lot of civilians > (non-computer folk) are willing to accept. Perhaps. I think you give them too little credit. Look at what they do in France, with those abbysmal minitel terminals. > As an example of what a non-technical person can easily do with FAX > messages, but might be real tough with email, is find the message > that supposedly came in within the last month or so (but really it > came in 4 months ago), and the document is remembered only as the > one that had a blue smudge in the upper left corner. Whether the thing is printed on a dot matrix printer or a FAX machine is irrelevant. -- `-_-' Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . 'U` Also or . "It was just dumb luck that Unix managed to break through the Stupidity Barrier and become popular in spite of its inherent elegance." -- gavin@krypton.sgi.com