Another is MyFax.com. I too got an unbelievable amount of fax spam with eFax.
--Kevin > The only good thing I can possibly say about efax support is that it is > so kind of them to hire so many mentally challenged folks. > > I have had a $12.95/month number with them for a few years. I get less > than 25 faxes per month and about half of them are junk faxes. I used > the send feature a few times but a few months ago it stopped working > with firefox/linux so I just went ahead and plugged my hp all-in-one > into a phone line for sending. > > Anyway, I recently logged into the account and changed the credit card > on file. Because the outgoing prepay balance was below $2 they attempted > to charge the card $10. I kindly asked them if they could just credit my > usage balance 60 cents to make it $2.10 since I have no intention of > ever using them for sending again. The result of this is a few emails > explaining what I already know about the $2 threshhold triggering a $10 > charge. My messages to them have simply stated that if they won't credit > me 60 cents I will cancel the service entirely. > > Anybody here offering good alternatives to efax/j2? Note that local DID > is no longer much of a feature since nobody in US48 should be paying > nore than 4c these days. Security is important. The simplest > implementation I can think of is to only send notification email and let > the subscriber pick up the file via https. I actually think that > approach is best for SOHO voip-ers. I have seen call quality degrade > while emails with large attachments are arriving. > > There are several other things I can suggest if anybody here is serious > about getting into this market. I setup hylafax without problems over 4 > years ago. I had no problem getting it so email the faxes as a pdf > attachment. The only reason I did not use it for production is that even > with my centrex contract it did not make sense to dedicate a line for a > dozen faxes per month. I believe the market for this type of service > improves as fax usage declines. > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Biz mailing list > Asterisk-Biz@lists.digium.com > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz > -- Telephonyware - Intelligent Telephony Solutions 1-866-864-2304 | 1-408-331-1971 | Ext 6091 http://www.telephonyware.com/ _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list Asterisk-Biz@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz