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From: sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Looking faxwards
Message-ID: <1990Jan12.163612.11730@aqdata.uucp>
Date: 12 Jan 90 16:36:12 GMT
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From article <9Z=962xds13@ficc.uu.net>, by peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva):
> FAX *is* a step backwards.
> 
> Can you FAX a program, or other document that you need in computer
> readable form? Conveniently? Reliably?

That's not a fair question as FAX isn't meant to do that.  Can you send
scanned images via email to my ascii terminal?  Of course not because it's
not meant to do that.  FAX isn't supposed to be a tool to make
programmers lives easier and it's not meant to be all things to all
people but it is fulfilling the needs of millions of people (read: end
users) which email sure isn't doing.

Put in a different way, FAX is meeting customer expectations.  Whether
those expectations have all the bells and whistles you would like as
a programmer doesn't matter.  It is what the customer wants.  If email
was what the customer wanted it would have caught on as quickly as FAX
(9600 Group III FAX, that is).
-- 
Michael Sullivan          uunet!jarthur!aqdata!sullivan
aQdata, Inc.              sullivan@aqdata.uucp
San Dimas, CA