From: Peter Ceresole on 6 Feb 2010 09:46 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > I realise that in california a fax is legally as valid as the thing > itself, but is a fax of something freely downloadble worth more than the > thing itself? I mean what does it prove? I don't know. But it carries more legal heft, I guess. -- Peter
From: Steve Firth on 6 Feb 2010 09:58 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > > > That may be so in the USA, but it's not true here. > > Yes, but Woody was dealing with a US company. And lives in the UK.
From: Richard Tobin on 6 Feb 2010 10:33 In article <1jdhyxk.18iemcy12atn1sN%%steve%@malloc.co.uk>, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: >> > That may be so in the USA, but it's not true here. >> Yes, but Woody was dealing with a US company. >And lives in the UK. The question was why they required it. And the answer is because they are in the US. -- Richard -- Please remember to mention me / in tapes you leave behind.
From: Woody on 6 Feb 2010 10:42 Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > That may be so in the USA, but it's not true here. > > > > Yes, but Woody was dealing with a US company. > > And lives in the UK. Regardless, all the certificate of incorporation indicates is that at one point a company was made, but not that it is still valid -- Woody
From: Elliott Roper on 6 Feb 2010 10:44
In article <1jdhyam.1jtx7z11vqc5u8N%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > > > That may be so in the USA, but it's not true here. > > Yes, but Woody was dealing with a US company. I'd be interested in an authoritative document that says that e-mail is as good as a fax in UK. I'd wave under the snouts of cardigan wearing jobsworths in banks and similar hidebound institutions. I tried sending a 'on-line' bank a signed and encrypted e-mail once. They told me they would not open it because it was spam. -- To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 |