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A store and hold communications system for storing data files and associated notification messages created at a plurality of first locations. The data files and associated notification messages are automatically and selectively transmitted and stored in remote data stores at a remote location. The r

A store and hold communications system for storing data files and associated notification messages created at a plurality of first locations. The data files and associated notification messages are automatically and selectively transmitted and stored in remote data stores at a remote location. The remote data stores are associated with a plurality of second locations. Facsimile copies of the notification messages are automatically sent to selected second locations corresponding to the intended recipients of the data files stored in the remote data stores. In response to receiving the facsimile copy of the notification message, the selected second locations initiate a communications link with the remote location to retrieve the stored data files from the remote data store at the remote location associated with the selected second locations.

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A method of transferring data files from a plurality of agency locations to a remote data store at a remote location and from the remote data store at the remote location to a plurality of publisher locations geographically separated from both the agency and the remote locations, each of the agency

A method of transferring data files from a plurality of agency locations to a remote data store at a remote location and from the remote data store at the remote location to a plurality of publisher locations geographically separated from both the agency and the remote locations, each of the agency locations having an agency computer operably connected to an agency data store and an agency communications device and each of the publisher locations having a publisher computer operably connected to a publisher data store and a publisher communications device, the remote location having a remote computer operably connected to remote data stores associated with each of the publisher locations and a remote communications device, the method comprising the steps of: providing at a first agency location a first data file comprising information to be published at a selected publisher location, and an operator created second data file comprising a notification message identifying the first agency location, identifying the first data file identifying the selected publisher location and providing other information associated with publication of the information in the first data file; storing in the agency data store of the first agency location, first data file and the second data file; commanding an upload cycle of operation at the first agency location, the upload cycle automatically compressing the first data file to produce a compressed first data file, transmitting the compressed first data file from the first agency location to the remote location geographically separated from both the agency and the publisher locations, creating a facsimile file of the notification message in the second data file, transmitting the facsimile file from the first agency location to the remote location, sending automatically a facsimile copy of the notification message from the remote location to the selected publisher location, and storing the compressed first data file in a remote data store associated with the selected publisher location; and commanding independent of the upload cycle of operation, a download cycle of operation at the selected publisher location, the download cycle automatically and sequentially transmitting the compressed first data file from the remote location to the selected publisher location, and decompressing the compressed first data file to produce the first data file.