Lionel Messi Still Uses Fax - So What?

[md00071]

Can't believe the coverage this story has got today. Just because the 20-something Salford University grads who work for BBC online have never heard of them, the rest of the world have. And loads still use them, even if it's mostly now just a function on a photocopier. So why would a transfer request have to be sent by fax? Easy...it probably would have to be signed by the player. Now then, BBC... you try signing an email or a tweet... 

 

Slow news day clearly

[Longcol]

3 hours ago, md00071 said:

Can't believe the coverage this story has got today. Just because the 20-something Salford University grads who work for BBC online have never heard of them, the rest of the world have. And loads still use them, even if it's mostly now just a function on a photocopier. So why would a transfer request have to be sent by fax? Easy...it probably would have to be signed by the player. Now then, BBC... you try signing an email or a tweet... 

 

Slow news day clearly

Or print out document, sign and date, scan, attach to e-mail, send.

 

Been doing it for years .

 

Last time I used a fax was best part of 20 years ago. Do 65 year olds qualify as 20 somethings?

[the_bloke]

12 hours ago, md00071 said:

Can't believe the coverage this story has got today. Just because the 20-something Salford University grads who work for BBC online have never heard of them, the rest of the world have. And loads still use them, even if it's mostly now just a function on a photocopier. So why would a transfer request have to be sent by fax? Easy...it probably would have to be signed by the player. Now then, BBC... you try signing an email or a tweet... 

 

Slow news day clearly

It's called an electronic signature. Has exactly the same legal standing as sending your signature by fax, since the Electronic Communications Act 2000 in the UK and eIDAS in the EU. It's how you sign electronic documents in the 21st century.

 

The reason it's being reported with incredulity is because it's incredible.

[RiffRaff]

Amazing, the fact that a telefax service existed 11 years before the telephone was invented...

[scimsfan]

It wasn't a paper fax he used but "Burafax" a system used for the transfer of official documents,  see last section "Don't let fax get in the way of a good story" :

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