Can you fax a text document over the Internet

[R80RS]

Originally Posted By: stchman
I am still at a loss that FAX still holds on.

Quite a few government entities allow/permit/encourage Fax exclusively over other forms of electronically transmitting documents, as in OP's case with his court business. I think government is the last holdout where Fax is still commonplace.

 

[Garak]

Yep, the theory is that it's much more difficult to electronically intercept a fax than an email. Judges will tend to accept documents by fax with a signature, unless someone really raises a stink over it not being an original document.

Of course, email encryption is beyond most of these people and would only complicate the matter, at least for them.

 

[BRZED]

I would address the judge simply as "Dear Judge" plus his last name. On a letter envelope, you should write "to The Honorable" plus his last name. The "your Honor" line is from movies. Should you get in return from Hanging Judge Parker a Dear Cornholio letter, will you please post its contents?

 

[Kuato]

Originally Posted By: InfmousCornholio
Originally Posted By: Olas
Email it


Can't. It's to Municipal Court, I'm trying to avoid a warrant, though from that particular city, having a warrant is the same as not having a warrant.

I have the Fax number to the Judge's chambers, where the Clerk straight up told me: "All we do is put it on the Judge's desk when he takes the bench, with his docket." Nice job...


If you can, this would save me:

1. Printing this thing
2. Walking farther in the heat than I have to
3. Paying like $2.65 (??) to fax ONE PAGE.

Are there any services that let you do this?


I think a walk in the heat, further than you would like to, is worth avoiding jail. Go fax it.

 

[spackard]

Originally Posted By: Garak
Of course, email encryption is beyond most of these people and would only complicate the matter, at least for them.

It tends to be beyond them, one technical reason is encryption is usually person to person and most legal correspondence is carried out by delegates and not by the attorneys.

For all the talk in security circles about CIA (confidentiality, integrity, assurance) there's always a push towards nonrepudiation, which ignores what happens in the real world of the legal profession, where lawyers do almost none of the paperwork themselves.

The fax machine is great for that environment. "Print delivery notification receipts" is always turned on, and to them it's nonrepudiation.

 

[Garak]

Yes, but there are ways to get encryption to work for delegates, although some of those just make them a little more complex, even more beyond them. One could use a group key and have robust expiry periods, but that creates its own set of struggles. Of course, to do it simply, the delegates could all have their own separate identities.

And yes, despite talk of the obsolescence of the fax machine, it is great for those specific reasons you mentioned.