From: Andrew Webber (awebber_at_sgml-mercs.com)
Date: Thu May 20 1999 - 21:55:29 EDT
[I'm posting this here because you're all such bright people].
I'm going nuts. I just signed up for eFax. (It's a service that
receives faxes and emails them to you in a compressed format).
They gave me a personal eFax number which looks like a real phone
number. I sent myself a fax from my fax machine. No coversheet,
no identification, actually just a 1/4 page of hand-written notes I
made this morning.
Within 30 seconds, there was an email for me. It was the fax!
1. How do can they hand out phone numbers like this? I was
expecting them to require and extra code or something!
2. What's their business model? Are they going to make it up on
sales of the enhanced (800#) service?
For being on the road, this would be absolutely incredible! I've
been wondering about looking into fax service from my cell-phone
company (I've seen ads from others -- the fax is "received" on your
cell phone but actually stored like vmail at the company, then you
find a local fax machine and redirect the fax). This is partly
better & partly worse. But it's free!
I don't want this to sound like a commercial. Forget the business
case (maybe it's the usual "there's no business case" of the
Internet), how the heck are they doing this? And are there any
worries other than security of the fax (which is a bigger problem
at a hotel fax machine)?
Thanks!
andrew
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