Originally Posted by Efrem

Slightly off-topic, but I can't help chuckling a bit about the amount of faxing being done for status matches. (I contributed three pages to the global total a few weeks ago.) It has so gone away nearly everywhere else. Just last week I had to send a paper document, electronically, to a lawyer - in my experience the last bastion of this ancient* technology. He said "Can you scan it, make a PDF and attach it to an e-mail?" Of course I could, and preferred to. (Yes, you can doctor PDFs - but you can also doctor the paper document that you fax, perhaps even more easily.) I wonder if, or rather when, this will become the preferred mode of communication for FF programs - for status matches (back to the thread topic!), missing mileage credit and elsewhere?

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*Today's bit of trivia: the fax machine, which most people associate with the late 20th century, was actually patented three years before the telephone (1873 versus 1876). It used telegraph wires, of course.