Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-16 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Friday 13 July 2007 22:38, Robert Cummings wrote: in which the sender is responsible for storing the mail until the intended recipient retrieves it seems like a good start. Bleh, that's so easily solvable for spammers. Create one real message, then softllink it for every actual email

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-16 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 23:04 +0800, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Friday 13 July 2007 22:38, Robert Cummings wrote: in which the sender is responsible for storing the mail until the intended recipient retrieves it seems like a good start. Bleh, that's so easily solvable for spammers.

RE: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-15 Thread Steve Perkins
Sorry, www.textit.biz Cheers -Original Message- From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 July 2007 17:52 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] SMS questions Might want to retry that link, it's broken. - Dan Steve Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-13 Thread Richard Lynch
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED], though this would still be only a partial solution. This is a lot harder now that

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-13 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, July 12, 2007 6:39 pm, Brian Dunning wrote: Hi all - I've been looking at a number of the commercial service providers for bulk SMS messaging, most of whom have PHP APIs. But since they are selling something they don't answer my question Is there any (legal, legitimate) way to

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-13 Thread Richard Lynch
It's annoying as crap to work with them. But if they were not so vigilant and picuyane, you know what we'd have? A zillion spam phone messages ringing your cell day and night from all kinds of idiots. Do you really want that? I sure don't. Give them at least some credit for trying to be

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-13 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Friday 13 July 2007 14:07, Richard Lynch wrote: I'd give a lot of money to be able to teleport back in time and yell at the email designer folks to tell them just how horrible a mess they were making... :-) But you have to give them credit for designing something so scaleable that even

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:30 +0800, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Friday 13 July 2007 14:07, Richard Lynch wrote: I'd give a lot of money to be able to teleport back in time and yell at the email designer folks to tell them just how horrible a mess they were making... :-) But you have to

FW: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-13 Thread Steve Perkins
M. Nixon Sent: 13 July 2007 09:17 To: Steve Perkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: [PHP] SMS questions Hi Steve Hope you're doing fine. It is possible. In short, you have seen how a SMS message is sent using a operators Name label i.e. the Messages says who it's from e.g. TEXT

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-13 Thread Dan
is his (slightly scary) response, might be of some use ... His website is www.textit,biz -Original Message- From: Shaun M. Nixon Sent: 13 July 2007 09:17 To: Steve Perkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: [PHP] SMS questions Hi Steve Hope you're doing fine. It is possible. In short

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-13 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, July 13, 2007 9:38 am, Robert Cummings wrote: On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:30 +0800, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: On Friday 13 July 2007 14:07, Richard Lynch wrote: I'd give a lot of money to be able to teleport back in time and yell at the email designer folks to tell them just how

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-12 Thread Nathan Nobbe
Brian, I was experimenting late last year using PHP to send SMS messages. I think there is a lot of potential in the marketplace around SMS. But most of the phone companies wouldnt even talk to me and all i was trying to do was hit a development API to test some code out. im almost certain you

[PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Dunning
Hi all - I've been looking at a number of the commercial service providers for bulk SMS messaging, most of whom have PHP APIs. But since they are selling something they don't answer my question Is there any (legal, legitimate) way to send an SMS message that can be replied to the

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-12 Thread Nathan Nobbe
Brian, 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED], though this would still be only a partial solution. This is a lot harder now that numbers are transportable between carriers.

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Dunning
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED], though this would still be only a partial solution. This is a lot harder now that numbers are transportable between carriers. I

RE: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-12 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] ...schtuff [/snip] Please, do not cast aspersions upon the telcos, for those of us who work in the industry cannot even get some of what you are talking about. We have a vendor that provides the SMS part and they will not expose the SMS API to us (not all SMS platforms are equal