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1/27/94

How to Send Faxes for Free on the Internet

The following information was submitted anonymously by one of DRCNet's subscribers:

HOW TO SEND LONG-DISTANCE FAXES FOR FREE ON THE INTERNET (this is a public service of the Internet Multicasting Service and is totally legit and above-board, in case you're wondering):

The address format for fax requests is "[email protected]", where NAME is the name of the recipient (this will be printed on the fax cover sheet) with underscores (_) instead of spaces, and NUMBER is their fax number with all its digits reversed and separated by dots (.). The country code _must_ be included in the fax number; the country code for the United States is 1. So, for example, if you wanted to fax Representative Lynn Schenk at 1-202-225-2042, you would address your e-mail to "[email protected]".

Not all areas are covered by fax servers. If you try sending to somewhere that isn't covered, your message will be returned to you. Here is the coverage list as of January 1994:

        Australia (+61) 

        Sydney (+61-2) 

        Wollongong (+61-42) 

        Canberra (+61-62)

        Canada and the United States (+1) 

+1-313 

+1-317 

        Battle Ground 

        Brookston 

        Buck Creek 

        Clarks Hill Lafayette/West

        Lafayette (Purdue University) 

        Mulberry 

        Otterbein Romney 

        West Point 

+1-408 

        Aptos 

        Ben Lomond 

        Boulder Creek 

        Campbell 

        Felton 

        Los Gatos

        San Jose 1

        San Jose 2 

        San Jose 3 

        Santa Cruz 1 

        Santa Cruz 2

        Saratoga 

        Sunnyvale 

+1-412 

        Carnegie Mellon University 

        Pittsburgh 

+1-415 

        Belvedere 

        La Honda Los Altos 

        Mountain View 

        Pacifica 

        Palo Alto 

        Redwood City 

        San Carlos-Belmont 

        San Francisco 1 

        San Francisco 2 

        San Francisco 3 

        Sausalito South San Francisco-San Bruno 

        Woodside

+1-508 

        Acton 

        Andover 

        Beverly 

        Billerica 

        Concord 

        Danvers Dover 

        Framingham 

        Littleton 

        Lowell

        Maynard 

        Medfield 

        Natick 

        North Reading 

        Peabody 

        Salem 

        Topsfield 

        Westford 

        Wilmington +1-510

        Antioch 

        Clayton 

        Concord 1 

        Danville 

        East Bay 1 

        East Bay 2 

        East Bay 3 

        East Bay 4 

        Fremont-Newark 1 Fremont-Newark 2 F

        remont-Newark 3 

        Hayward 

        Lafayette 

        Martinez 

        Moraga 

        Orinda 

        Pittsburg 

        Pittsburg 

        West Richmond Walnut Creek

+1-615 

        Bean Station 

        Claxton 

        Clinton 

        Concord 

        Dandridge 

        Friendsville 

        Gatlinburg

        Greenback 

        Halls Cross Roads 

        Harriman 

        Jefferson City 

        Kingston 

        Knoxville

        Lake City 

        Lenoir City 

        Loudon 

        Maryville 

        Mascot-Strawberry Plains Maynardville 

        Norris 

        Oak Ridge 

        Oliver Springs 

        Powell 

        Rockwood

        Rutledge 

        Sevierville 

        Sharps Chapel 

        Tate Springs

        Townsend Washburn 

        White Pine

+1-617 

        Arlington 

        Bedford 

        Belmont 

        Boston Central 

        Brighton

        Brookline 

        Burlington

        Cambridge Charlestown 

        Chelsea 

        Dedham 

        Dorchester 

        East Boston 

        Everett 

        Hingham 

        Hull 

        Hyde Park 

        Lexington

        Lincoln 

        Lynn 

        Lynnfield Malden 

        Marblehead 

        Medford 

        Melrose 

        Milton 

        Needham 

        Newton 

        Norwood 

        Quincy 

        Randolph 

        Reading

        Revere 

        Roxbury Saugus 

        Somerville 

        South Boston 

        Stoneham 

        Wakefield 

        Walpole 

        Waltham 

        Watertown 

        Wayland

        Wellesley 

        West Roxbury 

        Weymouth 

        Winchester 

        Winthrop 

        Woburn 

        O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., MA 

        Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc., MA 

+1-703 

        Alexandria-Arlington 

        Braddock 

        Department of Defense 

        Dulles-Metro 

        Engleside 

        Fairfax-Vienna 

        Falls Church-McLean 

        Herndon 

        Lorton 

        Pay Per View 

        Repair Service

+1-718

        Cambridge Computer Associates, Inc., NY 

        Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx, NY 

        Tinkelman Enterprises, Inc. 

+1-800 

+1-818 

        Azusa 

        Covina 1 

        Covina 2

        San Gabriel Canyon 

+1-909

        Chino Claremont 

        Diamond Bar

        Ontario

        Pomona  

        Upland 1 

        Upland 2 



        Brigham Young University (+1-801)

        Manhattan and Staten Island, NY (+1-212) 

        New York City (misc), 

        NY (+1-917)

        Temporary +1-301-981 (+1-301)

        University of Wisconsin, Madison (+1-608) 

        Washington, DC (+1-202) 

        Denmark (+45) 

        Copenhagen (+45-3) 

        Greater Copenhagen (+45-4) 

        Germany (+49) 

        Universitaet Dortmund (+49-231-755)

        FernUniversitaet Hagen (+49-233-1987) 

        New Zealand (+64) 

        The Netherlands (+31) 

        Amsterdam (+31-20) 

        United Kingdom (+44) 

        University of Oxford (+44-8652)

If you want to send images instead of (or in addition to) text, use MIME. MIME is the Internet-standards track technology for multi-media messaging. Remote printer servers support, at a minimum,
the following MIME content types:
- text/plain
- message/rfc822
- application/postscript
- image/tiff
- multipart
So, you might send something like the following: To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: application/postscript

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