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euroclydon on Feb 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: HelloFax (YC W11): Sign And Send Faxes From Your B...

If the casual user has to ever receive a fax, then I don't see how to get around a subscription, after all, you have to have your own fax number to receive a fax, right? There isn't some technology by which users could share a number and use an extensions as a discriminator, right?

swores on Feb 22, 2011 [–]

Sure there is, as long as the reciever can give instructions to the sender. It wouldn't be too hard to OCR a customer number.

Or, more likely, very short term number rental. Pay $1.95 to be able to recieve faxes on a particular number for a period of an hour.

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