For an easy way of sending SMS to a phone on *any* network register with
smsmebaby.com This site enable you to send an SMS in the form of an email,
like [EMAIL PROTECTED] which would simplyfy things somewhat.
Also for vodafone australia theres mtnsms.com which does the same thing I
think.
jo
>From: "Adam Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Send an SMS ?
>Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 20:55:52 +1000
>
>Been there, done that several times.
>
>I've got an online contact manager I wrote, that I set up so that it would
>work out the network a given mobile number was in and then use the
>appropriate SMS gateway, to allow someone on the website to send an SMS
>message to the person's mobile. ( Basically be my own web-to-SMS gateway.
>
>UNFORTUNATELY, these web to sms places come and go quite quickly, so while
>they are fine for one-offs, they arn't any good for programmed solutions.
>
>Actually, now that we have cable ( and hence a spare phone line ), I've
>been
>thinking of setting up the modem to phone to all three networks and do it
>that way...
>
>Adam
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, 17 May 2000 8:09 PM
>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Send an SMS ?
>
>
> > > Yeh me and some friends were actually thinking about that, since Optus
>often
> > > has free SMS (last three months on my plan) I was wondering if I could
>send
> > > SMS from my Linux box, oh .. and Modems cant receive SMS can they ?
>Can
>they
> > > send em ?
> >
> > A modem by itself wouldn't be able to send an SMS becasue SMS is a part
>of
> > the mobile phone network, and not anything to do with PSTN.
> >
> > there are a number of websites around that have a web-to-sms gateway. If
> > can hack together some sort of script to send messages throught the
> > interface you might be able to get something happening.
> >
> > Jason
> >
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