One limitation of faxes, however, is that your fax number is tied to your specific office location. If you are at home or traveling, faxes cannot reach you unless you have a home fax machine or are willing to pay the very high per page charge for use of the hotel's fax machine. All that is changed with eFax. A fax which is sent to that number is then delivered to you as an attachment to an electronic mail message. Thus wherever you can retrieve electronic mail, you can receive faxes through eFax.
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Depending on the speed of your electronic mail provider, receiving faxes through eFax can certainly be more prompt than waiting for the hotel desk to realize that you have received a fax. A new free service expands on the electronic mailing list concept to include a web site which can be the center of that collaboration. This service allows anyone to very easily set up an electronic mailing list. The mailing list can be moderated or unmoderated. In addition, past messages to the list are all archived automatically on the web site.