Re: Text messaging...

Most US carriers charge for both incoming and outgoing SMS.  Only 
overseas do you hear of free incoming being common place.

Paul

On Tuesday, February 17, 2004, at 11:37  PM, Ernest Phillips wrote:

> 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.
> -- 
> Ernest Phillips - [email protected]
>     <http://www.ernestphillips.com>
>
> 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.
>>>
>>> =====
>>> James Scott Coward++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++If you 
>>> don't like it, then, don't klick on it...



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