From: lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard)
Subject: Re: Pet Peeve "No E-mail"
Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:19:26 GMT

In article <1992Jul21.133111.11125@auto-trol.com> mattel@auto-trol.com (Matt Telles) writes:
>In article <1992Jul20.235323.28800@unislc.uucp> hastings@unislc.UUCP (Clint Hastings,B1E05,5119) writes:
>>In article <ted.711661530@sage0> ted@sage0.gsfc.nasa.gov (Ted Ying) writes:
>>>lfoard@Turing.ORG (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
>>>>In article <BrJJ11.4K5@world.std.com> cisml@world.std.com (Marty Lebowitz) writes:
>>
>>Gee. Like it would be so hard to give email access to those who need it.
>>Businesses were fairly quick to jump on the fax bandwagon, yet they
>>won't even consider email, which is far more efficient as a means of
>>easy communication than fax.
>
>Sigh.  No, e-mail is *nowhere* as efficient or easy as FAX. 

Where do you come up with this? Sending e-mail is as simple as
mail [employeers] <resume.txt

Faxing it requires:
Printing the document if it is not already printed, which assumes that
you have a decent printer available.

Putting paper in fax machine (assuming you own one), dialing the number
and hoping that the fax at the other end isn't busy.

Paying long distance phone bill much higher than that incurred even
if you have to UUCP the same text long distance.

>As a point of
>interest, I have a FAX machine in my basement.  I FAX resumes to companies and
>recruiters (both my own and others) all the time.  Why don't you have one?  

If I have several hundred dollars it will be going to a laser printer
first, a FAX wouldn't do me much good with the ancient DEC printer
I'm currently using.
If I get FAX capability it will most likely be a FAX board so I don't
have to print out everything first.

>They
>only run a couple hundred dollars and make communication virtually
>instantaneous.  Here, I am writing this letter on Tuesday morning at 7:30 a.m.
>Want to bet you don't read it before *at least* noon?  If I were FAXing to you,
>it would be there by 7:32.  

E-mail is delivered in under a minute to any place with an IP connection.
In a company with a direct link E-mail is going to arrive before the
FAX. Even with UUCP if you set it up for quick delivery it will only take
minutes.

>To do all this on e-mail requires that I load up rn,
>find your article, respond to it, tell rn to send it, wait for the computer to
>send out the articles, etc.  To FAX, I just type it up (maybe even by computer!)
>print it out and stuff it in the machine.  Then I dial a number.  That's all.  
>
>Sorry, e-mail is not likely to replace FAX machines in the near future.

No one I know who has e-mail access uses FAX to communicate with another
person who has e-mail access. 
>>
>>Yes, in this electronic age, the act of writing something up on your
>>computer, printing it out, filling out the envelope, stamping it so
>>the Postal Service can then carry it around the country for a few days,
>>so that someone can open it and read it and throw the envelope (and
>>possibly the contents too) away VERSUS writing something up on your 
>>computer and emailing it to someone who will get it in a matter of
>>hours IS difficult, wasteful (time, effort, and don't forget about trees!),
>>and IMHO immoral. How much longer can we afford to hang on to these 
>>outdated practices? And yes, I would LOVE the equivalent of bill-paying
>>that could be done like direct deposit. Just think of the resources
>>that would save.
>
>Sigh again.  I think you need to take a class in human behavior and response.

Your the first person I've ever seen advocate FAX over e-mail, the only
advantage FAX has is that more people have fax access at the moment.
-- 
>>Unix/C Contract worker available 5 years C/unix work experience<<  ______
Available for Telecommuting/Travel and contracts on the T Line       \    /
in the Boston MA area. Send me e-mail for a copy of my Resume.        \  /
       -- VWIS 508-793-9568 (2400 baud), Linux support BBS.--          \/
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.misc