On 06/06/2011 07:05 PM, nathan w wrote: > Maybe a quick php script to send mail to the sms gateway for the phone > providers? I can send sms msgs from email via [email protected]... > most other phone carriers offer the same service, u just have to research > what the sms gateway is, and know the carrier for each number in your group. > > ----- Reply message ----- > From: "Mark Phillips"<[email protected]> > Date: Mon, Jun 6, 2011 4:48 pm > Subject: [PLUG] Looking for a Simple Way to Send SMS to a Group > To: "Portland Linux Users Group"<[email protected]> > > I have a club softball team, and we are going to nationals at the end of > June. We communicate very well using an email list, but when we are on the > road not everyone has access to email. I am looking for a simple way to > > A. allow a member to send a broadcast SMS to everyone in the group. Not all > members have Internet services on their phone, so email is not an option. > B. allow a member to send an sms to a subset of the group, or an individual > member of the group. > > I thought of this scenario, but it seems rather clumsy: > For A: > 1. Use a google voice phone number as the broadcast number > 2. have google voice send the sms message to an email address > 3. have a python script forward the email via each carrier's email to sms > email address > For B: > 4. modify the python script to look for a tag in the sms body (e.g. > "to:sammy"), and the just send the sms message to sammy, not the whole group > > I am sure there is a better way to do this. I only need this capability for > 10 days, so I really don't want to spend a lot of money on it. My users are > not technically savvy, so signing up for a twitter account is probably more > effort than they want to expend. If I give them a phone number and say "Send > text messages to this number", they will probably do it. > > Thanks for any suggestions you may have! > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug sorry... i just re-read this from my computer instead of the phone and realized that my suggestion was essentially what you described. i did some testing though, and this phone at least will let me send an sms msg to an email address and it delivers fine, showing as coming from [myphonenumber]@messaging.sprintpcs.com. you might be able to cut out the google voice step from your proposed process if folks can send directly to an email. not sure if my phone/carrier is an exception in allowing this, but it could simplify things if it's common to your group.
g'luck! nathan w _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
