Telex – that was my e-mail. Twelve smudged words sent at inordinate cost. Forty-seven characters attempting to convey some sort of meaningful instructions from a client STOP.
When I first qualified, letters would arrive from clients, asking for some advice. A few days of careful consideration would pass and then a letter would be sent back. Then some clients got fax machines and a day was knocked off the process. The fast-fading quality of most fax paper did mean that leaving it too long to give advice could result in staring at a blank sheet of paper, however.
