Internet fax services

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

What are your experiences with using an internet fax service versus your 
own internal fax software?  We want something to integrate with our email 
software (Lotus Notes/Domino).  The way we envision this is our users 
could email to something like 2605551212@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and the email 
would be faxed to 2605551212.  Many attachments would also be rendered and 
made part of the fax.  And then if someone sent a fax to one of our 
inbound numbers, for example 2601234567 it would automatically be matched 
against a table that says 2601234567 goes to sally@xxxxxxxxxxxx and 
2602345678 goes to joe@xxxxxxxxxxxx and so on.

One would think that purchasing your own would be a one shot expense but 
we're not the kind of company to not pay our maintenance.  And we're 
finding out that maintenance is often 20% of list. 


Rob Berendt