[comp.mail.misc] why is fax alt?

eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) (07/25/90)

 xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>i wrote about computerfax:

>>and voila -- a thermal-paper tree is saved.
>
>Sure, but why go to all that trouble to raise the cost of email from $0.0025
>(batched transmission) to $2.50 (long distance call)?

that's a real intense cost analysis you've got there, KPD.

>Fax is what you do when you're too lazy to hack the politics of making email
>work right.

what cogency!  what an astute analysis!  what a  M A R O O N !

p.s.  what are the "politics of making email work right" ???

are we talking about "email political correctness"??  guffaw.


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/eli
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