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To: RockyBalboa who wrote (28)	2/11/1999 9:42:00 AM
From: RockyBalboa	Respond to of 31

NO. Open sucked. C.

To: RockyBalboa who wrote (28)	2/11/1999 3:54:00 PM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Respond to of 31

PCorld Article: Free Service Sends Faxes Via E-Mail Quick viewer and crisp image quality make receiving faxes via e-mail as convenient as receiving them on paper. by Dan Littman, special to PC World February 10, 1999, 9:02 a.m. PT All kinds of online companies offer free e-mail, but now eFax.com is providing free faxes over e-mail. The idea is simple: the service gives you a fax number that you provide to one and all. And pretty soon faxes start arriving in your in-box as electronic attachments. The reality is just as simple. I was impressed by how easy it is to set up an eFax.com account. It takes only a few seconds to register, and the registration form doesn't ask any nosy questions--it just needs a name, Zip code, and e-mail address. While I was perusing a page of FAQs, the eFax.com site was busy sending me a self-installing fax viewer and a personal identification number to allow me to change account details such as my e-mail address. After running the installer, I faxed some documents to myself. They arrived in my e-mail box in less than 2 minutes. A full page of text, densely packed with narrow 10-point type, became a 37KB attachment that was easy to read on screen. To see the faxes, I clicked the attachment icon in Lotus Notes, then clicked Notes' Launch command to run the viewer. Netscape Mail and Microsoft Outlook can display eFax.com documents without running the fax viewer. What's the catch? The fax number that eFax.com provided for me is in Illinois. That means long-distance charges for most people who want to send me a fax, even if they're just down the street. How does eFax.com make money on the service? The company plans to add "premium services" for a fee. Over the next couple of months, eFax.com users will be able to send outbound faxes via e-mail; pluck text from their faxes via automatic OCR; store faxes on the eFax.com server and retrieve them from the road; and provide a toll-free number for fax senders. Faxes come with a splash screen that will carry advertising, though eFax.com does not allow advertisers to send e-mail or faxes to its customers directly. The company, formerly known as JetFax, has a product line that revolves around fax and imaging technology. This includes multifunction office equipment that includes fax/e-mail integration; HotSend, a utility that lets e-mail recipients see attachments without the creating application; and PaperMaster 98, a document-management database. Related Links JetFax M900e Adds Fax-to-E-Mail HotSend E-Mails Viewable Files Symantec Rolls Out WinFax Pro 9.0, TalkWorks External Links eFax.com Today's Headlines • Cookie Glitch • Springy Keys Help • Lycos Organizer • 147 Million Online • Fees for Net Games? Previous Article What's the Future for Portals? Next Article Smallest Web Server Fits in Shirt Pocket pcworld.com