[JDEV] Jabber / 2-way-pager gateway? SMTP gateway?

Robert Temple Robert.Temple at dig.com
Fri Jul 13 19:24:12 CDT 2001


I get only 200 message per month.  If someone was able to spam me
with thousands of messages, I'd be very pissed.

-Robert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iain Shigeoka [mailto:iainshigeoka at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 2:11 PM
> To: jdev at jabber.org
> Subject: Re: [JDEV] Jabber / 2-way-pager gateway? SMTP gateway?
> 
> 
> At 07:00 PM 7/13/2001 +0100, Al Sutton wrote:
> >Jens,
> >
> >For pagers and phones presence isn't an issue, if you fire 
> the messages at 
> >their network their infrastructure will hold it until their 
> system is on line.
> >
> >I've been talking to an SMS gateway provider and considering 
> the idea. The 
> >main problem is the cost per message.
> 
> Yeah.  At only 1000 messages a month, I'm going to need some serious 
> server-side filtering to not exceed the quota.  :)  It is way cool 
> though.  They should structure it more like i-mode and make messages 
> fractions of a penny a piece.  I did notice that the quota is 
> per message 
> for the first 1000, but when you exceed the plan limit, its per 
> character... seemingly implying that the free plan messages have 
> "unlimited" size?  If so, perhaps a message "compression" 
> feature might 
> help.  Where the server saves up and packs a load of messages 
> together for 
> delivery every so often, and only directly sends ultra high priority 
> messages...
> 
> -iain
> 
> 
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