Re: RCS messaging

From	Marion <marion@facts.com>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.os.linux, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.mobile.android
Subject	Re: RCS messaging
Date	2025-04-02 23:44 +0000
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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).

As for RCS, I haven't experienced anyone in the USA who communicates with
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.
-- 
It's always Apple owners who can't ever interoperate with anyone else.

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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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