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Technology Stocks : EFAX.com - easy-to-use fax-to-email technology -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steve Turner who wrote (775)	3/24/1999 11:25:00 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1197

These are good questions. Just to clarify. It is unlikely that EFAX has a phone line for every phone number that they assign. It is common practice for a business to oversubscribe the ratio of phone numbers to phone lines as statistically not all phone lines would be active at the same time. The actual phone numbers do cost money though. However, since there is no economic reason for JQPublic not to get an EFAX number, it could cause the need for a great deal of new numbers in a time when new phone numbers are more and more difficult to find (evidenced by the fact that we see new area codes popping up more and more frequently). This makes me wary of this model. JXM

To: Steve Turner who wrote (775)	3/24/1999 11:40:00 AM
From: Tom Hua	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1197

Steve, you are a user and you like the service, good for you. But I have a hard time seeing how people really need the service. 1. People at work. Don't need it. We have plenty of fax machines. 2. People at home. If they don't already own a fax machine, they're not getting faxes. Don't need efax either. 3. Business travelers. Now how many actually carry a portable printer with them? Without a printer, how do you print out the information to take it to a business meeting or to study them, especially if the fax contains multiple pages? Scroll up, scroll down, transcribe the fax by hand? Try that when you have a spread sheet. Nope, not gonna work either. Better have them sent to the hotel. Regards, Tom