Re: Text messaging...

I thought I would weigh in on the SMS issue.  In my view, SMS buddies aren't
really buddies in the IM sense.  Therefore I don't think they should be
grouped together with regular IM buddies (online or offline).  I think
adding an icon to the toolbar and a menu item with a key shortcut for
sending text messages would be great.  When the icon was pressed or the menu
item selected, a window would pop up with a pull down menu of all your SMS
"buddies", a textbox for writing the message, and send and cancel buttons.
You would then choose the "bubby" you wanted to send a text message to from
the pull down menu and type the message in the textbox.  Once done hit send
and the message is sent and the window closes.  Adding these SMS buddies
would involve modifying the add buddy item to include a checkbox signifying
that you were adding an SMS bubby.  Checking the box could grey out all
irrelevant fields and maybe fill in the buddy id box with a +1 so you would
just have to add the cell number and an alias (if wanted).
In my view, SMS buddies shouldn't show up online or offline because for cell
phones that have AIM installed, the buddy would (and should) be considered
as an IM user and therefore you can send him messages like all other users,
no need to text message.
Sorry for the rant, just thought I'd pass my ideas on.

Martin

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> From: Joe Atkins <atreides322-/[email protected]>
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:37:18 -0700
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Fire-talk] Text messaging...
> 
> I like the idea of a separate "service."  One other thing, is could all
> away messages be disabled for this service?  I have sent an SMS to a
> friend, stepped away from my desktop and the idle message gets set or
> if I have a busy message set, then they respond to me and then get an
> away message.  Kind of annoying since you get charged for each message
> received and away messages with SMS is not necessary,
> 
> Joe Atkins
> 
> On Feb 17, 2004, at 4:22 AM, James Coward wrote:
> 
>> 
>> --- Graham Booker <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Interesting suggestion...  Since I am the developer for AIM, I know
>>> this can be added quite simply.
>>> 
>>> Just after the latest build was made, I changed AIM to allow
>>> messaging
>>> offline buddies.  This came after I figured out how to REALLY do
>>> invisible on AIM (You still see who is online).
>>> 
>>> The question I want to propose to the list is should Fire make SMS
>>> messaging users show up as always online, or not (since they aren't
>>> really a buddy)?
>> 
>> 
>> The way I see it is this: if it's not a real buddy, and there's no way
>> of knowing if the user is on at the moment, then, don't worry about
>> either.  Let text addresses present themselves as a neutral status of
>> some sort.  Perhaps identify somewhere subtle that the number may or
>> may not be online.  I think an alert message (with a checkable box to
>> make it not return), that appears before sending a message, might be
>> good enough.
>> 
>> You might want to look at identifying SMS as it's own service type,
>> too.  On the plus side to that, this would afford the ability to assign
>> an alias name to each number.  Makes for a very nice convenience.
>> 
>> =====
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