Re: End of faxing

[Jerry Adams <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a scanned copy of my signature that, whenever I want/need to 
"sign" an electronic document, such as a fax by electronic means, I just 
copy and paste it. 

Of course, that's usually just for one-at-a-time things or mail merges.  
But it reminded me of the check "signatures" that we used to keep locked 
up in a safe until time to sign the payroll checks.  Just plugged that 
puppy into the check signer and away she went.  When the P/R super was 
through, the treasurer locked it up in the safe.  I have never worked 
with a fax solution other than the WinFax thingy, but I would think that 
some of them would have the ability to attach a signature (secured?) 
from an IFS directory.  Don't know, just seems doable.


	* Jerry C. Adams
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Don wrote:
> Rob,
>
> Not challenging that, my comment was that for legal or whatever reasons
> there will be some requirement for the ability to actually write on a
> document before sending it...
>
> I think in time the quality of the combo printer/fax/scanner boxes will be
> at the point that we have one box that does all 3 functions, and possibly
> more, and the process of scanning/faxing/storing a signed document for
> archival/transition will be as common place as printing is now.
>
> DR2
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rob@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 3:36 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: End of faxing
>
> Don,
>
> Thread was dealing with the automatic generation of outbound faxes vs 
> email.
>
> I think there will still be a use for traditional fax machines for those 
> papers that need to be signed and sent back, and similar items of that 
> genre.
>
> Rob Berendt
>