Re: SMS questions
| From: | Richard Lynch | Date: | Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:10:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: SMS questions | ||
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On Thu, July 12, 2007 7:07 pm, Brian Dunning wrote:
> Here's another thing that would be nice: A web service to look up the
> carrier for a cell number. That way you could simply send an email to
> phonenumber@carrier.com, though this would still be only a partial
> solution. This is a lot harder now that numbers are transportable
> between carriers.
If you have the service from the SMS vendors, you can lookup the
carrier for any number.
If there was a web service for it, you'd have a zillion more spammers
using those gateways to send text messages to random cell numbers. Oh
joy.
> I was not able to find any service provider that makes the SMS
> messages appear to come from the sender's cell phone, so they could
> be replied to normally.
So you'll have to play postman and route things through your number.
Doesn't seem that onerous to me...
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