I used to have this some time ago, as well as a text pager. Both were too clumsy for me. Now that cell phone time has come down to earth, I just rely on it.
Jon Tom Matkin wrote: > It just came to my attention that the text messaging function on my cell > phone has now been activated. A holiday gift to me from Rogers AT&T. I > was able to send a brief message (test) to my regular email address and > also to send an email message to my cell phone from my computer. I also > sent a brief message to my wife (Hi Hon, Love Tom) to her cell phone and > just to make sure there is peace in the family I sent one to my > daughter. That pretty much exhausts my sense of what can be done with > this new method of communication. Does anyone on the list use this > service? If so why? It is painfully slow to compose even the simplest > message, something akin to setting the time on your VCR. Perhaps some of > you out there can suggest good reasons for this service. I've seen the > cool TV commercials where disarmingly casual young men warn each other > from the horrors of attending a possible "chick flick" using their text > messaging phones, or where two young lovers share messages from either > end of a Greyhound bus. But at $.15 a pop one wonders. Why not just > call the person up and talk? I suppose it makes the phone into a > glorified pager, but I already have a voice mail feature on my cell > phone to collect the wrong numbers that frequently catch me. I seem to > have a number that was once had by a sales rep. at Zurich Life > Insurance. He still gets a lot of calls.... er... I still get a lot of > his calls on that number. His name is Neal. I hope we meet one day. > I'll click my tongue and point my finger with my thumb straight up, in > that classic sales rep sort of way, and say "Hi ya Neal, I've got yer > number!" It would take 45 minutes to turn those seven words into a text > message on the cell phone. > > Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving to y'all. Here's a link to tell you how to > avoid killing yourself preparing that Butterball. Sorry if it's too > late to help. > http://www.ehso.com/ehshome/FoodSafety/foodsturkey.php#What > Imagine the odds of survival if you were eating turkey on a Disney > Cruise ship? > > Tom > > Cardston, Alberta > www.matkin.com > > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // > /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// > /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// / > > > ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /// ZION LIST CHARTER: Please read it at /// /// http://www.zionsbest.com/charter.html /// ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aaP9AU.bWix1n.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
