USENIX Board Studies UUCP

Peter da Silva peter at ficc.uu.net
Wed Nov 22 05:24:01 AEST 1989


In article <1416 at cs.rit.edu> mjl at prague.UUCP (Michael Lutz) writes:
> In article <49017 at looking.on.ca> brad at looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
> >You mean like the group III FAX standard?  ...

> >You're right, it'll never catch on, unless they give it away.  :-)

> I think Brad's ignoring the fact of an existing, usable, if admittedly
> non-optimal alternative.

Not to mention that FAX itself is an existing, usable, if admittedly non-
optimal alternative to email for a large percentage of cases.
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