Re: Billing & Kannel SMS side

At 04:58 AM 2/18/03 +0000, Kita B. Ndara wrote:
>
>--- Stipe Tolj <[email protected]> wrote: > "Kita
>B. Ndara" wrote:
>
>  What I mean is to allow a config file element (in
>SMSC group) that is a command that is called by
>bearerbox before it inserts the msg into the smsc
>specific queue, and another command in the conf file
>that is run after the SMSC accepts the message. Both
>comamnd specs allow substitution of %P, %p (sender,
>recipient) and others.


why not just do the first call on submitting to smsbox and use the std 
Kannel DLR mechanism for the rest?

nisan

>
> > >
> > >  Any thoughts?
> >
> > Kannel's scope of function is beyond billing. In
> > other words, billing
> > should be done by software component entities that
> > are *not* part of
> > Kannel.
> >
> > To make it short and simple. It's more or less a
> > religious question if
> > you incorporate billing facilities to Kannels
> > functional scope. Most
> > of us decided not to do this, because billing (in
> > that SMS traffic
> > sense) is not standardized in any way and hence we
> > would implement
> > properietary things, which open source developer
> > don't like :)
>
>  Ok, but in this case kannel would merely leave it up
>to external commands to provide this functionality --
>just as we do for content. That is, only if the
>pre-submit comamnd returns TRUE do we put the msg on
>the smsc-specific queue, and after it is accepted, we
>run the post-submit command. The first one is like a
>balance check, the latter the real billing command.
>  Does this still violate the goodness of OS?
> > Stipe
> >
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