| 摘要 |
A document is processed by a web server at a web site to determine from a customer whether the customer wishes to facsimile the document to a recipient for free or for a fee. If the customer indicates the customer's desire to facsimile the document for free, a message, preferably an advertisement, is added by the web server to the facsimile document before the document is facsimiled to the recipient. Preferably the advertisement is disposed by the web server in the vertical blank spaces at the opposite sides of the document. Before the document is sent, the web server determines from the customer through the Internet system whether the customer is a first time user at the web site and, if so, the web server obtains background information through the Internet system concerning the customer. If the customer is sending the facsimile document for a fee, the web server makes certain at the web site that the customer has sufficient money in the customer's account to pay for the cost of sending the facsimile to the recipient. The customer may communicate with the web server at the web site through the Internet system either from a web browser hooked into the Internet system or from a desk top individual to the customer and pre-connected by printer driver software to the web site of the service provider. A facsimile server is provided at the web site to send the facsimile message through telephone lines to the recipient.
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