Greetings: We made some progress on the SMS plug-in on v 0.7.4. I know the goal is to have all connection options (SMS, XMPP, Morse Code) done as plug-in in v 0.9. This email is to outline a few of our issues so we can all come up with a common solution usable by everyone.
Status === We can now send texts working and need to work on receiving. If anyone with a US cell phone would like to try it out, please send me an email and I'll walk you through the process. Control of Opt-in Process === As an approved SMS service, Padpaw has to make sure that everyone sending/receiving text messages understands Padpaw's terms of service and has opted in. Because we're providing standard rate messages this requires a double opt-in process. Padpaw has an opt-in process already and we'd like to use it so we can be consistent with our current service (Padpaw users can join groups just using text messaging). We need to do the following: - For the first opt-in, we need to control of images, text, and form on the SMS settings page. This includes a required check off for TOS (plus link back to Padpaw TOS page) before the process continues. The second opt-in is the member getting a text confirming they want to join Padpaw. They send back an "OK" - Adding the phone number to the database immediately instead of waiting for a conf code. From Padpaw's standpoint, you can send as many phone numbers as you like to our service via the API, but they'll all be rejected unless its an opt-in. Currently we're finding that this goes beyond the current plug-in framework and we would need to provide additional files as necessary. I'm not sure replacing files is very "pluggy" Receiving Responses === We can take xmppdaemon.php and create another daemon for Padpaw. This would check for new messages and write them back into the database. There should be some way to authenticate services so the Laconica server is getting texts from padpaw.net and not spamspawn.com. Best Regards....Keith Erskine -- Keith Erskine tel: +1 978 884 8113 skype: keith.erskine
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