I would assume 1 number could be reused and routed by the cell co: Text geek to 123456 to get your free tech-geeks t-shirt from Tech Geeks Inc Text nerd to 123456 to get your free Star-trek Klingon forehead prosthetic from We B Nerds Inc.
Just speculating though.... On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 10:04 AM, Joel A. Brondos <[email protected]> wrote: > We've all seen the kind of "Text RACE to 47856". > > How does one get one of those 5-digit numbers assigned? > > What kind of program is necessary to take that texted information and > to generate a reply/response? > > What kind of responses can be sent . . . text message, picture, > message on a digital billboard? > > What if I wanted someone to text to a number that would respond with > some kind of information for our school? > > Does Google have any services like that? (How long before the run out > of numbers to 99999 . . . and start lengthening the numbers, adding > letters . . . or is it just a matter of a subscription service which > identifies users on the basis of texts and reassigns the data > accordingly?) > > Joel Brondos > Brookfield, IL > _______________________________________________ > Tech-geeks mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.illinicloud.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech-geeks > -- "Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Dr. Howard Thurman ****************************** Aaron Keith Hackney [email protected] Cell 210.325.2196 ****************************** _______________________________________________ Tech-geeks mailing list [email protected] http://lists.illinicloud.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech-geeks
