Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-16 Thread Robert Cummings
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 23:04 +0800, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > On Friday 13 July 2007 22:38, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > > in which the sender is responsible for storing the mail until the > > > intended recipient retrieves it seems like a good start. > > > > Bleh, that's so easily solvable for spa

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-16 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Friday 13 July 2007 22:38, Robert Cummings wrote: > > in which the sender is responsible for storing the mail until the > > intended recipient retrieves it seems like a good start. > > Bleh, that's so easily solvable for spammers. Create one real message, > then softllink it for every actual em

RE: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-15 Thread Steve Perkins
Sorry, www.textit.biz Cheers -Original Message- From: Dan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 July 2007 17:52 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] SMS questions Might want to retry that link, it's broken. - Dan ""Steve Perkins"" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-13 Thread Richard Lynch
On Fri, July 13, 2007 9:38 am, Robert Cummings wrote: > On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:30 +0800, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: >> On Friday 13 July 2007 14:07, Richard Lynch wrote: >> >> > I'd give a lot of money to be able to teleport back in time and >> yell >> > at the email designer folks to tell them just

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-13 Thread Dan
Might want to retry that link, it's broken. - Dan ""Steve Perkins"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Richard makes some good points. Further to the original posting though, I have a friend who works with this SMS stuff, and out of interest asked him about it. Here

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-13 Thread Robert Cummings
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 22:30 +0800, Crayon Shin Chan wrote: > On Friday 13 July 2007 14:07, Richard Lynch wrote: > > > I'd give a lot of money to be able to teleport back in time and yell > > at the email designer folks to tell them just how horrible a mess they > > were making... :-) > > But you

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-13 Thread Crayon Shin Chan
On Friday 13 July 2007 14:07, Richard Lynch wrote: > I'd give a lot of money to be able to teleport back in time and yell > at the email designer folks to tell them just how horrible a mess they > were making... :-) But you have to give them credit for designing something so scaleable that even

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-12 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, July 12, 2007 7:07 pm, Brian Dunning wrote: > Here's another thing that would be nice: A web service to look up the > carrier for a cell number. That way you could simply send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], though this would still be only a partial > solution. This is a lot harder now tha

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-12 Thread Richard Lynch
It's annoying as crap to work with them. But if they were not so vigilant and picuyane, you know what we'd have? A zillion spam phone messages ringing your cell day and night from all kinds of idiots. Do you really want that? I sure don't. Give them at least some credit for trying to be respon

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-12 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, July 12, 2007 6:39 pm, Brian Dunning wrote: > Hi all - I've been looking at a number of the commercial service > providers for bulk SMS messaging, most of whom have PHP APIs. But > since they are selling something they don't answer my question > > Is there any (legal, legitimate) way to

RE: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-12 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] ...schtuff [/snip] Please, do not cast aspersions upon the telcos, for those of us who work in the industry cannot even get some of what you are talking about. We have a vendor that provides the SMS part and they will not expose the SMS API to us (not all SMS platforms are equal either)

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-12 Thread Nathan Nobbe
Brian, Here's another thing that would be nice: A web service to look up the carrier for a cell number. That way you could simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], though this would still be only a partial solution. This is a lot harder now that numbers are transportable between carriers. fr

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-12 Thread Brian Dunning
Here's another thing that would be nice: A web service to look up the carrier for a cell number. That way you could simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], though this would still be only a partial solution. This is a lot harder now that numbers are transportable between carriers. I wa

Re: [PHP] SMS questions

2007-07-12 Thread Nathan Nobbe
Brian, I was experimenting late last year using PHP to send SMS messages. I think there is a lot of potential in the marketplace around SMS. But most of the phone companies wouldnt even talk to me and all i was trying to do was hit a development API to test some code out. im almost certain you