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To: Randy Ellingson who wrote (46045)	3/16/1999 5:55:00 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Randy, Do they plan to charge for the service ? Or will they live on advertising ? There may be an opportunity for a company to collect a few of the useful free services and enhance them and make a profit by charging subscriptions. Of course that wouldn't be Amazon. From what I read, they don't have any intention of making a profit until it is "appropriate". Maybe AOL or Yahoo will buy the efax type companies and roll them into their standard service.

To: Randy Ellingson who wrote (46045)	3/16/1999 6:05:00 PM
From: Rob S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

EFAX has gone nuts since I first saw it a few days ago. The truth is that converting a FAX document to PDF, ASCII or some other format is not such a big deal. Sure it takes a pretty good up-front commitment of money to build up the servers but the conversion process is straightforward and not unique. Give it a few years and this will be standard service across the Internet - every telecom and web portal company will have it. All this will eventually merge into "Universal Data Messaging" and eventually FAX service will become obsolete (a slow, slow death).