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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (6 children)

WHY WONT THESE FUCKING THINGS DIE ALREADY, STOP USING THEM!!!

signed, IT

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

All those sensitive forms that still have to go through fax will be picked up by email.

Just kill me and be done with it.

Signed, infosec

[–] valkyre09@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sender - uses email to fax software

Recipient - uses fax to email software.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 15 points 1 month ago

because, since fax machines are older than telephones, they have had time to be written into law.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Because the oldest people making decisions don't understand technology and refuse to accept that better ways are available if old ways still work. Fax machine users would rather work harder than smarter.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I received a fax at work once, 10 years ago. The subcontractor has issues with their email so they call me to warn me they were faxing me the document I needed.

It took me a good 2 hours to finally locate the fax machine in the factory, no one had any idea that we still had a fax machine running.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago

I think you can send faxes to computers and they just get received as emails with attached PDFs. It's not great because of course it's just a picture of a document, so it's not searchable or editable unless you run it through an OCR program.

[–] urquell@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

What the hell. I haven't seen one in decades.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Because the fax machine prints a confirmation that it was received