Patent ID: 7716296

Claim:
A method for sending an e-mail message comprises: sending a request by a user for a transmission instruction page to the facsimile sever; receiving the transmission instruction page via a telecommunications network from the facsimile server in response to the request, wherein a destination e-mail field is blank, and wherein a destination facsimile number field is provided with a destination facsimile number, wherein the facsimile number is determined for a user; printing-out the transmission instruction page; thereafter entering a plurality of text entries from the user comprising hand-printing the plurality of text entries on the transmission instruction page to form a filled-in transmission instruction page, wherein the plurality of text entries includes destination e-mail address, and wherein the destination e-mail address is entered in the destination e-mail field; sending a facsimile to the facsimile server by the user in response to the facsimile number, wherein the facsimile includes the filled-in transmission instruction page; wherein the facsimile server converts the facsimile into an e-mail attachment; wherein the facsimile sever determines advertisement data appropriate for the user to append to the e-mail message in response to the facsimile from the user; wherein the facsimile sever sends the e-mail message including the advertisement data and the e-mail attachment to the destination e-mail address; wherein the facsimile server optically derives the destination e-mail address from the transmission instruction page of the facsimile; and wherein the facsimile server maintains statistics regarding number of times the advertisement data is sent to provide to advertisers for payment purposes.