And I suppose fax machines are slightly less scary to the technically disinclined. If you can work a phone and work a copier, you can probably handle a fax machine. Though, it seems like it would be a great idea to have networked fax machines then.

Of course, that would lead to vast abouts of faxed spam. Which would seem like it should already be a problem with long distance being cheap as it is, but I expect the issue is that the existing laws deal much more harshly/effectively with fax spam than e-mail spam. I suppose it also harder for your spam botnet to go undetected if you try using the system’s fax/modem.

A lot of people think that faxed signatures are legally valid and scanned signatures aren’t*, which obviously isn’t the issue here, but does explain why people sometimes want stuff faxed. And there’s always bureaucratic inertia.

* What’s especially funny is that there are a number of subscription-fee-based e-mail/fax gateways that will happily turn your “non-legal” scan into a “legal” fax (and vice versa)…

Yes and no. I did actually look at one dissertation by a former student in my department and they appeared to be using a \baselinestretch of 2, but the template the department distributes (but makes no guarantees of its correctness) uses 1.5, and another student in my department that recently graduated said he used 1.5.

So I am starting to suspect that as long as it is not single spaced, they will interpret the document as being double spaced.

I imagine that may actually be an option, but at the time I did not think to press the issue. I am not really sure why people still want to use faxes anymore; I am hard pressed to believe there is someone that has a fax machine that does not have an e-mail address.