On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:34:45 +0000, Prasad, Ramit wrote: > Michael Torrie wrote: [...] >> However I know of no phone or network that won't let you use longer >> messages; multiple SMS packets are used and most phone paste them back >> together. So no there's nothing that anyone needs to change to use >> longer messages if they so chose. It's now just an arbitrary limit, >> part of the twitter culture. > > > True, but order of delivery is not guaranteed. I still sometimes get out > of order text message when multiple messages are sent at once.
SMS delivery is not guaranteed *at all*. It's a best-effort delivery service, which means the telco can drop any SMSes it feels like, for any reason it likes, without notice or notification. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
