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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jens,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>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.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've been talking to an SMS gateway provider and
considering the idea. The main problem is the cost per message.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Al.</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jens@mac.com href="mailto:jens@mac.com">Jens Alfke</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=jdev@jabber.org
href="mailto:jdev@jabber.org">jdev@jabber.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, July 13, 2001 6:21 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [JDEV] Jabber / 2-way-pager
gateway? SMTP gateway?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Has anyone written a gateway between Jabber and two-way pagers
like the hugely popular Motorola T900? These devices can apparently send
messages nearly instantly among themselves, and can send and receive Internet
email too.<BR><BR>It appears that the only way into the system from outside is
via email, so I guess this would really be an SMTP gateway, perhaps similar to
the one Al Sutton mentioned yesterday. I.e. an IM sent to the device would
result in the gateway talking to the service's SMTP server, and the gateway
would run its own SMTP server to accept incoming mail that would be instantly
routed via Jabber. I would guess this would also work with cellphone text
messaging (SMS) which has the same kind of email access.<BR><BR>Unfortunately
there doesn't seem to be any any presence feature in this system -- as far as
I know, it's not possible to tell whether a user's pager is on and in range.
But the system does queue incoming messages until the pager comes back
online.<BR><BR><?smaller>T900 info:
<http://www.motorola.com/GSS/CSG/direct_pagers/T900/>. I'm probably
going to buy one of these in the near future; I've held out against cellphones
but in this case the geek appeal plus the low price ($100 + $15/month) is too
much to resist. Plus, they come in translucent colors...)<BR><?bigger><BR><?fontfamily><?param Marker Felt><?color><?param 0000,5151,0101><?bigger><?bigger><?bigger><?bigger>—Jens<?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/bigger><?/color><?/fontfamily><?/bigger><?/smaller></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>