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Re: RCS messaging

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In alt.comp.os.windows-10, on Wed, 2 Apr 2025 23:44:19 -0000 (UTC),
Marion <marion@facts.com> wrote:

>On 2 Apr 2025 19:17:58 GMT, Frank Slootweg wrote :
>
>
>>>> > 2. When I forward a message that I received via Verizon's email-to-
>>>> > text feature, and it contains a photo, the photo is queued for
>>>> > forwarding but the text is discarded.
>>>> 
>>>> No Verizon here, so can't replicate.
>>> 
>>> You do know that pretty much every carrier maintains a way to send an 
>>> email to a particular phone number?(*)  It's not just Verizon. (I 
>>> have Visible, but the email-to-phone thing is the same because 
>>> Visible uses its corporate parent Verizon's network.) 
>> 
>>   As Andy indicated, in Europe (i.e. for Carlos, Andy and me) - and
>> probably most of the rest of the non-US world - these e-mail-to-SMS/MMS
>> and vice versa gateways are a thing of the past. These days, people just
>> use modern IM (Instant Messaging) platforms (if they only know a
>> recipient's phonenumber, but not hir e-mail address).
>> 
>>   Also MMS is a thing of the past and SMS is mostly a thing of the past
>> (except for *receiving* SMS messages (for 2SV and other purposes)).
>
>I'm in the USA and while there are essentially only 3 major carriers, all
>of whom have an SMS-to-Email gateway, I agree with Frank that it's almost
>unused here (as far as I can tell from my own personal experience).

I don't want to have to turn on my phone to send a text, so for the one
or two people I write to often, I've found the email address of their
phones, and I use email from the PC and they get a text.

Then when they reply to me with a text, I get an email.  It's very
convenient. 

>As for RCS, I haven't experienced anyone in the USA who communicates with

They changed texting on my phone to RCS.  I use mintmobile on a Xiaomi
phone.  Not sure who made the change.   If the other party is also using
RCS, I think it would show on my phone whether or not they'd read my
text.  That would be good to know.  AFAIK prior to RCS no one provided
that info. 

>me having anything to do with it - but I'm using PulseSMS as my default
>SMS/MMS app, and it doesn't have RCS so I probably wouldn't even know it.
>
>My only issue is when I receive a video from iPhone users, I have to switch
>those iPhone users to WhatsApp (which most of them have) to be non blurry.
>
>I suspect (hope?) that when RCS/encryption arrives, things will improve.

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Re: RCS messaging Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-02 23:44 +0000
  Re: RCS messaging "Alan K." <alan@invalid.com> - 2025-04-02 22:54 -0400
    Re: RCS messaging Marion <marion@facts.com> - 2025-04-03 06:13 +0000
  Re: RCS messaging micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-04-03 03:16 -0400
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