I have a club softball team, and we are going to nationals at the end of June. We communicate very well using an email list, but when we are on the road not everyone has access to email. I am looking for a simple way to
A. allow a member to send a broadcast SMS to everyone in the group. Not all members have Internet services on their phone, so email is not an option. B. allow a member to send an sms to a subset of the group, or an individual member of the group. I thought of this scenario, but it seems rather clumsy: For A: 1. Use a google voice phone number as the broadcast number 2. have google voice send the sms message to an email address 3. have a python script forward the email via each carrier's email to sms email address For B: 4. modify the python script to look for a tag in the sms body (e.g. "to:sammy"), and the just send the sms message to sammy, not the whole group I am sure there is a better way to do this. I only need this capability for 10 days, so I really don't want to spend a lot of money on it. My users are not technically savvy, so signing up for a twitter account is probably more effort than they want to expend. If I give them a phone number and say "Send text messages to this number", they will probably do it. Thanks for any suggestions you may have! Mark _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
