From: "Robert A. Costner" <pooh@efga.org>
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 07:09:47 +0800
To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
Subject: Re: Legality of faxed signatures.
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At 01:56 PM 1/16/98 -0800, James A. Donald wrote:
>This is a big problem for me, because I want to scare
>businessmen into using digital signatures.  

Part of the process for having a Digital Signature law is to establish the
definition of a writing.  Since faxes are not writings, but email is, you
should be able to scare them into digital signatures pretty easily.


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