Personal computing discussed
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ludi wrote:*blinks* What year is it?
Chrispy_ wrote:ludi wrote:*blinks* What year is it?
1998, apparently.
For the last 20 years, we've used a fax-to-email service. It's vastly superior to an old analogue fax machine and assuming it's probably cheaper than the toner cartridges too.
ludi wrote:The daily spam trap summaries I get from our third-part filtering service still contain attempts to spoof various scan-to-email and fax-to-email file types.
Chrispy_ wrote:Let's face it, fax has been dead for at least a decade so the people that are still using them are more likely to also be a decade behind on scam-awareness and system security.
just brew it! wrote:He's a bank regulator. They get complaints about banks. He doesn't work for the banks, he works for the state government.
xgsound wrote:As I understand it, a fax can have the weight of law because it can be verified, whereas an email is way too readily spoofed.
While people may agree to accept an email, legal matters have strict requirements for court purposes.
xgsound wrote:As I understand it, a fax can have the weight of law because it can be verified, whereas an email is way too readily spoofed.
While people may agree to accept an email, legal matters have strict requirements for court purposes.
NovusBogus wrote:Fax is still used a lot in law, healthcare, and especially real estate. It's probably never going away, however much affluent nerds with affluent nerd jobs in affluent nerd cities might argue that anything not living in a Google or Amazon server farm is blasphemy.
DancinJack wrote:Do I know for certain what it will be replace by? No, not necessarily. It'll be gone at some point though.
TheRazorsEdge wrote:DancinJack wrote:Do I know for certain what it will be replace by? No, not necessarily. It'll be gone at some point though.
The lack of a standard replacement is probably the only thing keeping it around.
Digitally signed PDFs are becoming increasingly common where I work, but this requires people to overcome the enormous obstacle of obtaining certificates.
Chrispy_ wrote:ludi wrote:The daily spam trap summaries I get from our third-part filtering service still contain attempts to spoof various scan-to-email and fax-to-email file types.
Well of course. That's because the demographic who still use fax machines are the ripest targets for the scammers.
Let's face it, fax has been dead for at least a decade so the people that are still using them are more likely to also be a decade behind on scam-awareness and system security. If I were a scammer, fax users would be an obvious target, if not the MOST obvious target.
Svantetit wrote:At this point I just need to know if I need to separately wire them or if I can split off the OG fax machine and run the line from that.
Thank ya'll for the helpfully information.
Svantetit wrote:At this point I just need to know if I need to separately wire them or if I can split off the OG fax machine and run the line from that.
Thank ya'll for the helpfully information.
just brew it! wrote:Only other potential issue I can think of is you may get glitches if someone tries to use the other machine at the same time. When the other machine goes "off hook" to look for dial tone you could get some noise on the line, corrupting the transmission.
Arvald wrote:Dollar Store, picking up the slack.Buy a dollar store phone line splitter and run an RJ11 (ie phone cable) to the other machine. both parts commonly available at dollar stores for $1 each.
You can set fax machines to number of rings... including never answer for an outgoing only fax.
UberGerbil wrote:Arvald wrote:Dollar Store, picking up the slack.Buy a dollar store phone line splitter and run an RJ11 (ie phone cable) to the other machine. both parts commonly available at dollar stores for $1 each.
You can set fax machines to number of rings... including never answer for an outgoing only fax.
DrCR wrote:'Digitally' signed PDFs pragmatically are, in my experience, a scanned john hancock pasted into an afterward flattened PDF. I'm unsure if other firms operate in a similar manner.