Hey,
I more than agreeing with Nadav,
Face the fact that in life you sometimes have to pay for stuff.
GNU idiology was that you don't need to pay for programs or source.
But the arguement of the people who opppose it , is exaclly people who
abuse the service giving by the source.
You use thier servers to send the SMS , you sent it on thier network,
and all they ask you is to register before.
I think that more than fair, and I think that if enough people would do it
the other portals way they would probebly close thier site.
And for a fair reason.
Phreakers finally getting to israel..
Ely Levy
System group
Hebrew University
Jerusalem Israel
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Nadav Har'El wrote:
| On Thu, Dec 28, 2000, Alon Altman wrote about "Re: Sending SMS messages by E-mail +
|Sending E-mail from an SMS cellphone":
| >..
| > P.S. A script to exploit Orange written by Nadav Har'el and improved by me
| > is available at my site - http://vipe.technion.ac.il/~alon/cellphone/
| >..
|
| Objection! Speculative ;)
|
| My script wasn't to "exploit" Orange: like *all* cellphone providers in
| Israel (and probably most providers around the world), Orange provide a
| way to send SMS messages to their customers from the Internet. This is
| interface between the Internet and the Real World is very important, and as
| I said in a previous posting, I didn't get a Cellcom phone until I was
| promised that they will soon have one (and indeed they added their site
| about amonth later). The fact that this gateway is free is nice, but not
| the most important thing (i.e., if it had cost 10 agorot per message, it
| would add 15 shekels to my monthly bill - I wouldn't go bankrupt), but because
| on the Internet you don't have aneasy way of charging 10 agorot. Instead,
| they charge the users for the privilige of receiving SMS messages (cellcom
| no longer does, but I paid 10 shekles a month for that privilige for about
| a year).
|
| Anyway, using my script for personal use (sending stuff to your own phone
| number, sending a reasonable amount of messages to friends, etc. - all assuming
| that you register to their online service and agree to its terms) is surely
| "fair use". The "fairness" of automatically registering 500 fake userson
| their site and letting 10,000 people share them is a little more questionable,
| because you deprive them of the _accountability_ they wanted (if somebody,
| say, spams SMSs, they want to have a lead on who did it, and block him;
| Actually, they may have blocked you for this exact reason!). But as you know,
| my script requires you to register on your own, and to provide it with the
| username/password registered on Orange/Cellcom's sites.
|
|
|
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