[AusNOG] Cisco SPA - Fax in Australia

[Tony]

Which is maddeningly frustrating.

The process in both cases is:

Digitise image
Send over public network (voip or email)
Remote party receives image and prints

Yet I can execute a banking transaction by faxing a completed signed form  
to the appropriate fax number, but I can't scan/email the same form to the  
same person who would have received the fax anyway. In both cases what the  
person has received is the same (a digitised copy of a form with my John  
Hancock on it sent via an unsecure network with no real verification that  
it actually came from me).

The even more frustrating part is that it's entirely possible the "fax"  
that I send is received by a fax machine and not actually printed out, but  
instead turned into a PDF and delivered to someone via email anyway. Or if  
it is printed out as hard copy, it will quite possibly then be scanned and  
converted to digital data for storage/archival.

So what is the answer to this problem  ?



regards,
Tony.



On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 18:01:19 +1000, Joshua D'Alton <joshua at railgun.com.au>  
wrote:

> There are legal reasons I believe.
>
> EG must be delivered via mail or fax, email isn't in a lot of those...
> 'technical' requirements yet.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 5:50 PM, David Witham  
> <david.witham at netsip.com.au>wrote:
>
>>  +1 to Andrews response. This is our approach also. Although if the fax
>> is being sent across a public network sometimes you have to resort to  
>> t.38
>> and all its foibles.
>>
>> Macca - I ask myself all the time why people still insist on faxing. And
>> their machines are all-in-one with scan-to-email! Go figure!
>>
>> David
>>  ------------------------------
>> *From:* AusNOG on behalf of McDonald Richards
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 22 April 2014 17:38
>> *To:* Andrew Yager
>>
>> *Cc:* AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Cisco SPA - Fax in Australia
>>
>>  The holy grail of faxing is a scanner and email....
>>
>>  Macca