Word: faxed
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When the listings appear in a catalog or on a website--or both--you can contact the folks with whom you would like to exchange by mail, e-mail, telephone or fax or, through some online services, anonymously. Some services allow only members to browse their listings; others make them available to all viewers. From that point on, you make your own arrangements with each family...
...ever o.k. to fax a thank-you note? Is it kosher to read someone else's fax as it comes off the machine? Is it rude to use a speakerphone? With all the new gadgetry and the nearly universal advent of dress-down Fridays, office life at the end of the century was supposed to get simpler, wasn't it? But in the era of digital wizardry and globalization, rules of business behavior have become more important to us than ever. A spate of new books tackle the problem of gentility in the workplace from a number of angles...
Mann and co-screenwriter Eric Roth want to make The Insider a suspense thriller and an art film. There are assignations under dark bridges, ornery messages snailing out of fax machines, snatches of arias on the sound track and enough slo-mo shots to extend the movie's running, or ambling, time to 2 1/2 hours. And those endless conferences! The viewer almost has to be a journalist--or a good editor--to sniff out the meat under...
...phone call to the parents will fulfill the requirements. If, however, the company plans to pass the information on to another party (usually some sort of marketing group, for a steep price) a more formal notification of consent will be required, like a letter via regular mail, a fax or another, more futuristic identification method, such as a "digital signature." Each company can decide which medium works best for their purposes...
...software--you can do what everyone else on the Net has long been doing: automatically append a "signature file" to outgoing e-mail. Think of sig files as the bumper stickers of e-mail--your chance to personalize your messages. While mine has always been simply name, rank and fax number, the best sig quote I ever saw was the whimsical "I'd like to die in my sleep with a smile on my face like my granddad, rather than screaming in terror like his passengers...