Apparently you can turn off (on a regular fax machine) incoming faxes from long distance? This is what I suspect folks from the area code I am trying to fax have done proably in order to stop spam. Otherwise, I just faxed from my eMac long distance to a person in PA, who was on their eMac, while they were surfing on cable modem. So I am doing the long distance thing right and she was amazed that she could surf and chat with me over AIM while the fax was being received. I also tried calling a regular phone number in that area using my fax line and that worked fine. So again, it's them, not me. Problem solved, sort of!