On Thu, 2003-03-06 at 21:06, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 04:26:08PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > Here's a disastrous consequence. [...] > > In this context (but not directly on-topic), I'd like to tell about > a little service we had running at Wapit, where I worked on Kannel[1]. > It was a limited facility for web browsing via SMS. You'd send it a > message like "www debian.org" and it would fetch http://debian.org/, > strip out all the tags, and send the contents back to you, in the > form of one or more SMS messages. There was a limit of 9 messages > for one page, I think. > > Over here an SMS message can only hold 140 bytes, usually holding > 160 7-bit characters. If you want more, you have to send more of them, > and generally pay for each one. The typical GPL blurb would use up > a whole message, costing money (probably around $0.05) and annoying > the user.
It seems to me that there's a lot of stuff that you would want that gateway to strip or abbreviate. You would want to cut all copyright notices. Incidentally, it's probable that that service as-is violates a lot of copyright notices, by rebroadcasting the pages without permission. -- -Dave Turner Stalk Me: 617 441 0668 "On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock." -Thomas Jefferson
