On Fri, 7 Jan 2005, James Newtons Massmind wrote:

> Interesting... I'll forward this on to my friend as he may be able to put it
> to use with some of his homeless.
>
> The issue I would see is that on the form, you have to put your home phone.
> The assumption is made that you will be living at the point where that phone
> number rings. If you are applying for a job in the 760 area code, and your
> home phone is in the 212 area code, the question of transportation to the
> job becomes an issue of concern. Although many homeless people do have cars,
> even those that do typically don't have terribly reliable cars, so the
> prospective employer may question the ability of the applicant to get to
> work without fail.
>
> Also, I've had a fax number with a competitor of j2 and I know that a
> special program was required to view the faxes they sent. The special
> program was spyware. I'm signing up for the j2 voicemail to see if it is
> possible to pick up and listen to the voicemail via a web based email
> provider (yahoo.com) without installing any special software (ie: at the
> library)

You may also want to check out www.efax.com which sends faxes as email 
attachments (no spyware, normal tiff files) and offers local numbers.

Peter
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