>From a post on BrightHand: How to send group sms (text)? WITHOUT resorting to using third party > software > Answer: Fire up Memos. Tap New. Lets say you want to send same SMS like > "HAPPY NEW YEAR" to members of your family. Write down their names and valid > MOBILE phone numbers on a piece of paper. Maximum of 8 numbers in one > group. You only have to do this once. Now in your new memo, type in those > numbers (no names) separated by colon (or semicolon) and no space between > numbers and colons. When done, press menu/Edit/Select ALL/Copy. > Open up new message and blinking cursor should be at top adressee line. > Now press Menu/Edit/Paste. You will then see all the numbers one on top of > each other and soon replaced by NAMES and you see the names cascadindg down. > It was a joy to watch. Now type your message and BEFORE you Send you may > want to save your message as draft by pressing Menu/Compose/Save As Draft. > You may SEND the message from the draft copy. This way you have two copies > of group Adressee, one in Memos another in the SMS Draft folder. > Labourious perhaps but you do it only once even if you buy or upgrade to > another Palm. >
Have fun ;-) On 6/21/07, Jeffrey Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:02:49 -0000 Rick Smith said: > > > In a situation like that, sending SMS to a group is much easier than > > making several phone calls. I regularly send SMS to groups. > > Is there a way to enter a group name/distribution list all at once, or > do you have to enter each name individually in a list? > > > (BTW, I'm part of the over the hill gang for SMS as I recently passed > > the 1/2 century mark. So add me to the list of SMS users who were > > thought to be too old to know how to use SMS.) > > I'm reminded of the commercial (VZW, I think) of a family at the dinner > table, and the father keeps txting the son for salt, ketchup, etc, > until the mother takes the phone away. > > -- > Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org > The from userid is killfiled Send personal mail to gordol > > "Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge." Scott Adams > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
