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Why fax... just send a f*cking email.

  • 31-08-2011 10:11pm
    #1
    sundula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭


    Why do football clubs fax, surely scan and email is the best way.


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  • #2
    Mars Bar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,969 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    sundula wrote: »
    Why do football clubs fax, surely scan and email is the best way.

    You can't put your signature on an email. :)


  • #3
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    Fax to email...


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'd imagine that it's the FA who request a fax.


  • #5
    Oranage2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    I think fax should be outlawed.

    - horse back or carrier pigeon only


  • #6
    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    mars bar wrote: »
    You can't put your signature on an email. :)
    Sign, scan, e-mail. Sorted.

    The only problem I can think would maybe be quality. A scanned document is never as good as the original.


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  • #7
    everdead.ie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,153 ✭✭✭everdead.ie


    sundula wrote: »
    Why do football clubs fax, surely scan and email is the best way.
    A fax is a legal document an email isn't.


  • #8
    mikemac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,986 ✭✭✭✭mikemac


    Same in financial services OP, deals and trades are done by signed fax and not email

    Email is not a secure form of communication as was drilled into us at induction


  • #9
    NoelJ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭NoelJ


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    I think fax should be outlawed.

    - horse back or carrier pigeon only

    I can just imagine Sky Sports helicopter following the carrier pigeon. :pac:


  • #10
    OPENROAD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,692 ✭✭✭✭OPENROAD


    NoelJ wrote: »
    I can just imagine Sky Sports helicopter following the carrier pigeon. :pac:

    Jim White in the helicopter?


  • #11
    doncarlos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,839 ✭✭✭doncarlos


    everdead.ie wrote: »
    A fax is a legal document an email isn't.
    mikemac wrote: »
    Same in financial services OP, deals and trades are done by signed fax and not email

    Email is not a secure form of communication as was drilled into us at induction

    Living in the past lads. Email is 100% a legal document.
    A contract signed, scanned and emailed is as much a legally binding contract as a fax


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  • #12
    Theboinkmaster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Theboinkmaster


    everdead.ie wrote: »
    A fax is a legal document an email isn't.

    That's not true e-mail is just as legal.


  • #13
    mirwillbeback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,016 ✭✭✭mirwillbeback


    " I am away from my desk with no access to emails until 23.01 this evening, 31/08.

    Regards,

    David Moyes "


  • #14
    Glico Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,283 ✭✭✭Glico Man


    NoelJ wrote: »
    I can just imagine Sky Sports helicopter following the carrier pigeon. :pac:
    OPENROAD wrote: »
    Jim White in the helicopter?

    It'd be like Dick Dastardly and Muttley trying to catch the pigeon :pac:


  • #15
    MaceFace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭MaceFace


    Errh, what is wrong with Fax, besides it being old fashioned?

    I can fax a signed document to someone in 2 mins. If I was to email that signed document, I would go to my fax machine (which is also a scanner/printer), scan the document and get it to email me a copy which I would then have to email to the recipient.
    Typing in a bloody email address on a scanner is a pox. Tap Tap Tap for O, Tap Tap Tap Tap for P and where the hell is the @ sign?


  • #16
    sundula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭sundula


    I think an email system would be better, scan all the signed files and lump them off to the FA. Even today I see the paperwork for Jordan Slew to Blackburn is not sorted.


  • #17
    stovelid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,252 ✭✭✭✭stovelid


    Nice to keep up with the burning football issues of the day.


  • #18
    Beefy78
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,166 ✭✭✭Beefy78


    It is a bit stupid in this day and age. Four or five years ago we (Southend) missed out on a deadline day signing because we had a paperjam in our fax machine at 4.59pm ahead of the 5pm deadline.


  • #19
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    gnfnrhead wrote: »
    Sign, scan, e-mail. Sorted.

    The only problem I can think would maybe be quality. A scanned document is never as good as the original.
    And we all know that a fax is an almost perfect reproduction of the original...
    MaceFace wrote: »
    I can fax a signed document to someone in 2 mins. If I was to email that signed document, I would go to my fax machine (which is also a scanner/printer), scan the document and get it to email me a copy which I would then have to email to the recipient.
    You really should get your employer to make your office more wheelchair-friendly then.:pac:

    I mean, how far is your printer/scanner from your desk that it takes you more than two minutes to email it to your PC and then forward it on?


  • #20
    tricky D
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,700 ✭✭✭tricky D


    Email is an enforceable contract once it is digitally signed and sent encrypted in the UK since the passing of Electronic Communications Act 2000 (section 7). It satisfies the legal requirements for contracts of: privacy/confidentiality, authenticity, integrity and non-repudiation. Actually more secure than fax as a fax signature can be easily forged.


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