RE: filmscanners: Re: paperless office

["Sumtingwong" <Sumtingwong@hawaii.rr.com>]

I would have to do more research on this.  A well informed friend told me
about it at work.  I do believe that it is now part of the U.S. Code,
though.

Spencer Stone

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Hersch Nitikman
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 10:19 PM
To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
Subject: RE: filmscanners: Re: paperless office


Interesting! Was it a Federal law? In what jurisdictions does it apply?
Hersch

At 06:00 PM 01/31/2001 -1000, you wrote:
>A law was just passed here in the US that makes a digital signature (i.e.
>email) good in court.
>
>Spencer Stone
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>[mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Gordon Tassi
>Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 5:00 AM
>To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
>Subject: Re: filmscanners: Re: paperless office
>
>
>Although we are getting closer to a paperless society, I think that the
>biggest
>impediment is based on our legal system.  Though we could electronically
>transmit
>signed documents showing some type of commitment to do something, the
demand
>of a
>document that has a "fresh" signature is still the legal standard.  The fax
>machine has been around for many years but a document with a real signature
>is
>most often demanded and follows the fax in the mail.
>
>Paperless will not arrive until a) everyone has a computer, b) they are
>willing to
>acept a legal commitment via computer, c) the electronic security systems
>can
>absolutely assure that people cannot be tamper with the records of falsify
>them,
>and d) the courts accept that an an electronic copy is absolute proof of
the
>legal
>commitment.  We have a long way to go to get to that point.  In the
>meantime, we
>will have to settle for trying to be a society with less paper.
>
>Gordon
>
>Arthur Entlich wrote:
>
> > Laurie Solomon wrote:
> >
> > > I would suggest (a) that your office is a rarity, (b) your office
> > > technically is not a "paperless office" in that you still receive
>invoices,
> > > receipts, etc. from others that you need to scan in, and (c) most
other
> > > places which are relying heavily on electronic operations still tend
to
>keep
> > > paper backup files and archives of their files and records just in
case
>as
> > > do their workers for their personal security and use.
> >
>
>Arthur Entlich wrote
>
> > We have enculturated certain specific habits and styles of functionality
>over
> > many hundreds of years which have involved the use of paper/hard copy
>documents,
> > books, etc.
>
> > Ironically, when we have computers that more mimic our relationship with
>paper,
> > we will get closer to the "paperless" society.
> >
> > Art