J2.com (formerly jFax and about 3 others they bought) is free, you can
sign up and try it out as much as you want. They give you your very own
phone number (which is in california usually), and they will email faxes
to you that it receives. pretty cool. I predict they will run out of
capital in less than a year. I have 2 phone lines tied up myself just
for testing, and that must have cost them $200 in the year I have had
them. 

If you want an 800 number or a number in your own city you pay more,
maybe they will make a little money that way.

In my opinion, the phone lines are damn cheap--it's the fax supplies and
machines that I hate to have to support. Does anyone know a nice mac
based fax server?

PB

Jeff Yurka wrote:
> 
> I was thinking of using an internet fax service to reduce the number
> of phone lines we pay for. Does anyone have any experience with one
> of the providers or any suggestions.
> 
> My understanding of these services is they provide you a fax number
> and your faxes are emailed to you as attachments in a graphic format
> such as tiff or gif, etc. Some I believe are free, but we always get
> what we pay for.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Jeffò