On 10/30/10 1:43 , [email protected] wrote: > a couple other issues to watch out for along this road. If you setup a > full SMS server, there are requirements that you must support messages > from the user. > > you must support 'help' being sent to you and reply with information > about what the srevice is > > you must support a block message, which if you get, you must honor by > never sending a message to that phone again.
Don't forget that you also have to have a website with all the info. Regulation at its finest ;) This only pertains to US though. In Europe you just sign up with a gateway provider and get your username and password and off you go ;) > another option to keep in mind nowdays, is to use asterix or similar to > make a phone call to the person. This provides a means of solving the > 'did this message get through' by having the user hit a key to > acknowledge the message. Commercial systems that do this are still $$$, > but they are pretty simple to setup cheaply. Or, if you want to go the SaaS route, you can use an IVR provider that can do that for you and all you have to do is listen to the HTTP POST. In US we use MTI (messagetech.com) and they are pretty good and fairly inexpensive, considering that if you really need this, usually a lot more is at stake than a couple of thousand $$ monthly. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
