Re: Text messaging...

I don't know of any carriers that charge for receiving. The standard is 
to charge for sending only, @ 10 cents/message or a monthly package 
deal.
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On Feb 17, 2004, at 3:37 PM, Joe Atkins wrote:

> 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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