Cold Hard Fax

17 Dec 2004

Today, Ev Williams said Faxing Sucks. But if you look back on the web archive, there's clearly a record, on my sidebar, of me having said faxing sucks on April 11, 2000. That was four and a half years ago! Despite the fact that it took some time for the message to get out, I feel that my post on this subject was definitive. Ev has shown me disrespect by not acknowledging my earlier post on this topic, when it was clearly there in plain sight buried in the archives of an old version of my site's design.

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Anil Dash: Cold Hard Fax from Ian Landsman's Weblog on December 20, 2004 7:30 AM

Anil Dash: Cold Hard Fax - Anil and Evan agree faxing sucks and I couldn't agree more. The thing I find most interesting is that countless organizations I've dealt with will take an untraceable illegible fax as a legal document from me, but not a digit... Read More

Fax You! from hatch.org on December 20, 2004 2:20 PM

I said it last year around this time and the year before too. Now Ev is saying it and of course Anil had said it way before anyone, but PLEASE let us make sure we rid the world of the... Read More

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That is just plain wrong. I mean, the guy worked at Google, so he clearly should have known.

Ross Mayfield | December 17, 2004 4:04 PM | Reply

Faxing doesn’t suck! It’s great! It’s just sad it never got beyond “business use” here.

kmikeym | December 18, 2004 12:48 PM | Reply

Cripes. At least music has a ten year cycle!

Gordon | December 20, 2004 5:48 AM | Reply

I mean, the guy worked at Google, so he clearly should have known.

blindb | September 3, 2006 3:37 PM | Reply

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