On Jul 30, 2008, at 8:44 PM, Bob Wyman wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:56 PM, anders conbere
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure this is necessary. Or at least I don't see much
> of a difference between a service that aliases your name
> "Anders Conbere" to your email address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
Imagine that you're using a federated system like Identi.ca rather
than a walled-garden system like Twitter. Now, imagine that you
subscribe to two different people: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (two people, same local name). Given this, what
would a message look like if it is delivered to you via SMS? In
that case, the alias "anders" wouldn't do you any good since you
wouldn't know *which* anders was responsible for the message. Your
SMS server would be forced to expand the alias out to include the
domain in order to allow you to show you who sent the message. But,
in doing so, it would lengthen the message and might, therefore,
result in the message growing to more than the maximum number of
characters for an SMS message... So, your SMS system might have to
cut off the end of the message and thus, potentially lose important
information.
I understand you original problem but in this case I expect to
receive the SMS with the @alias I gave to each of those users in my
address book, falling back to the full address if none was set. I
would also expect the phone number from which the SMS was sent to be
unique and tied to that address entry so that a simple SMS reply
would send it to the proper recipient.
Best regards,
--
Pedro Melo
Blog: http://www.simplicidade.org/notes/
XMPP ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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