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by shoo 1074 days ago
facsimile refers to communication by fax machine, an ancient method of written communication over telephone lines that was popular pre-email, and is still popular in remaining pre-email societies such as federal government departments and japan.

> begrudgingly generated by the use of software

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I know what a fax is, but I was missing the header context. Thank you.