1/27/94
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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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