Ask by mrinaldoss: We need a Fax machine which can send back a reply stating the fax has been recieved.Any machines or softwares?
The conventional fax on senders side does give out transmission OK signal.But we need(for legal reasons) the fax machine sending back a reply saying message recieved(with possibly our stamp/signature).But we are unable to get a person doing this in view of the downsizing of personnels and volume of fax coming in.Any ides (like a particular brand of machine or software) which can do this??

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Answer by GTB
Dream on!

Were there such a device on the market, it would require the receiver’s end machine to send an acknowledgment. The receiver’s machine can be set to disable such acknowledgments if the receiver so desires. If you are dealing with what you feel are less than honorable recipients of your transmissions, they will be the first to turn off any acknowledgment of receipt features as this is their less than honorable nature. No machine can make anyone honorable.

In fact I have lawyers as customers and some of these people are masters at dodging acknowledgment of receipt and insist that e mail receipt acknowledgment modes are deactivated and some only turn on their FAX after they have approved the transmission for receipt.

If some in the legal community do this, surely others are equally aware of the receipt acknowledgment disabling capability.

If you need confirmation of delivery, a FAX is not the way to do this. You must rely on certified mail.

Ironically, the legal people who disable their acknowledgment features are the first to complain about the cost of certified mail and wish others would be sure to enable receipt acknowledgment – but that is another issue.

What do you think? Answer below please!