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To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (20927)	3/16/1999 12:47:00 AM
From: mchip	Respond to of 122087

It's like Hotmail Anthony. If I'm travelling and can't hook in to the internet I can check my email from any browser. Now if I send my Efax faxes to my hotmail account... I can get my faxes anywhere. I'm not saying it is not grossly overvalued right now. But it works and helpful.

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (20927)	3/16/1999 1:59:00 AM
From: Sword	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 122087

Tony: EFAX claims to do more than that. They claim to have written software that allows faxes to be sent over the internet. Fax machines today can't handle the time delays inherent in net transmissions. It screws up the handshaking that goes on between the transmitting and receiving machine. If you think about it, you always call a fax machine. You never transmit to it via the internet today. Why not? It would be convenient if I could just send my MS Word Document right to a fax machine. It would require: 1. The document be sent to an internet switching machine somewhere that could dial up the modem in the fax machine. 2. That the delays over the net be compensated for somehow so that the ancient, dumb fax machine doesn't go bonkers trying to figure out what the hey the sending machine is trying to say. This is what EFAX claims to have solved.

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (20927)	3/16/1999 2:02:00 AM
From: Sword	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

EFAX: Tony: The next item in their business plan is to make it possible to communicate with the utilities in your house. Bill Gates has dreams of putting Windows CE on your toaster, refrigerator, window drapes, TV, kid's diaper, etc. The chips exist. I have a few of them and am playing around with them. The EFAX technology is the only thing out there right now that would be able to communicate with them over the internet without a lot of overhead electronics being installed as well. Bill Gates will want this technology. It's software, it's copyrighted by EFAX and it's enabling for what he wants to do in life.

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (20927)	3/16/1999 10:17:00 AM
From: Clayleas	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 122087

<What the hell does EFAX do beside give people who cant afford a fax machine or a second number aPhone-munbmer to recieve faxes that are then sent to e-mail and viewer...> A@P, Don't underestimate the benefit of this. I can see this service being very popular with home businesses and other small businesses. However, I still don't understand the business plan - acquiring phone lines and giving them out for free with no assurance that they will be used regularly.

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (20927)	3/16/1999 8:00:00 PM
From: SouthFloridaGuy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 122087

While I don't disagree that EFAX stock has gone ahead of itself, I do disagree with your assessment regarding the need for EFAX. I think it is an essential tool for businesspeople on the road. Nobody is saying that EFAX will replace the Fax machine, it's merely yet another way the world is becoming interconnected. I don't know where you shorted this stock, but you're bound to make money just because it is damn volatile. But if you are shorting it, so are a lot of other people, and damn straight when this thing stabilizes, some very smart people will squeeze some cohones.