Re: Send email as a text to cell phone

I agree on all points. We already send emails but I think receiving them as a text has a lot of advantages for the use case I'm looking at.


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From: WEB400 <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 9:05 AM
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Send email as a text to cell phone

I personally wouldn't consider twitter a viable option for a real world
alert.

If we're relying on smartphones SMS/text messages or even emails would be
better as the alerts for those are normally automatic.

Everyone with a phone has a phone number. Most should have email. I
wouldn't rely on everyone having twitter not to mention having it set up
for alerts properly for something like this.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I appreciate all the responses. To start, I can easily limit it to
company issued phones - I know the carrier. The intent of the original
post was to get feedback on web services (or other source?) for determining
the carrier for a given number.

All our phones will be @vtext.com, but if we just get a number (perhaps,
from a customer or vendor), I'll need a lookup method to get the domain to
send to.

Sending the email/text once, I know the carrier, is a no brainer and works
fine (tested to my phone). Pretty sure I would not have considered Twitter
as a viable option.

Thanks again.

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From: WEB400 <web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of David Gibbs <
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Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 6:40 AM
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Send email as a text to cell phone

On 12/11/2015 8:11 AM, Scott Klement wrote:

I'm not sure that twitter makes a good substitute for sending a text
to a phone, however.

Another thing to consider is privacy ... cell phone carriers are covered
by privacy laws ... I don't think / know if twitter messages would be
covered.

With a text message you have a expectation of a certain level of privacy.
With twitter you should have no expectation of privacy.

david


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