9 Jun
2006
9 Jun
'06
12:20 a.m.
On 9-Jun-2006, at 05:52, Ian Batterbee wrote:
That, uh, certainly seems to qualify, yes.
The trouble with SMTP gateways, though, is that (a) messages can get held up for long periods in queues, with no timely notification of the delay to the system originating the page, and (b) if you can send mail to your pager, so can ten thousand evil spammers. Seems to me that a service more like the one you suggested (e.g. which accepted a short message over TCP and returned success/failure based on whether the message was properly relayed towards the mobile network) would be a useful thing. Joe