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Re: More about RCS.

From "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: More about RCS.
Date 2025-01-04 02:55 +0100
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On 2025-01-03 23:22, Arno Welzel wrote:
> micky, 2025-01-03 14:02:
> 
>> In comp.mobile.android, on Fri, 3 Jan 2025 06:58:16 +0100, Jörg Lorenz
>> <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:
> [...]
>>> All other messengers have this functionality for years. This is minimum
>>> standard. Nothing to write home about.
>>
>> Really?  I never noticed any indication that my emails had been read
>> before I got RCS.
> 
> "email" is not "messenger". Don't get confused with that - these are to
> fundamental different services.
> 
> E-Mail uses long existing standard protocols like SMTP, POP3, IMAP and
> can be used with clients like K9 mail, Google Mail and so on. It is also
> a federated infrastrucutre, which means you can have a GMail account but
> you can also send e-mails to people at Hotmail or any other custom
> domain which has e-mail services enabled - because servers of the
> providers accept messages from other providers outside their own
> network. Yes, this has some limitations to avoid spam, but this is the
> general idea of federation.
> 
> Messengers on the other hand are mostly proprietary non-federated
> services like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Threema etc. which use servers
> of the respective provider (like Meta in the case of WhatsApp) and they
> send messages using these servers. You also can not send message from
> WhatsApp to Signal or Threema. If you have friends using Threema you
> either also need a Threema account or you have to convince your friends
> to join the messenger service you use yourself.

Whereas SMS is guaranteed to exist on any (mobile) phone.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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More about RCS. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-02 22:55 -0500
  Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-03 06:58 +0100
    Re: More about RCS. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-03 08:02 -0500
      Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-03 15:25 +0100
        Re: More about RCS. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-03 09:36 -0500
          Re: More about RCS. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-03 15:38 +0000
            Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-03 22:27 +0100
              Re: More about RCS. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-04 18:41 +0000
          Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-03 18:26 +0100
      Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-03 23:22 +0100
        Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-04 02:55 +0100
          Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-04 09:02 +0100
            Re: More about RCS. Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-01-04 09:59 +0000
            Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-04 13:00 +0100
              Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-04 13:49 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-04 20:52 -0500
          Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-05 12:57 +0100
            Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-05 15:18 +0100
            Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-05 17:26 +0100
              Re: More about RCS. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-05 16:31 +0000
            Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-05 17:31 +0100
              Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-05 18:40 +0100
              Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-05 21:59 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-05 22:19 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-05 22:30 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-06 16:36 +0000
            Re: More about RCS. Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-01-07 13:42 +0000
              Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-07 15:05 +0100
  Re: More about RCS. Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2025-01-03 13:46 +0000
    Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-03 23:25 +0100
      Re: More about RCS. Dave Royal <dave@dave123royal.com> - 2025-01-04 07:52 +0000
        Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-04 13:03 +0100
          Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-04 13:51 +0100
            Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-05 13:01 +0100
              Re: More about RCS. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-05 13:14 +0000
              Re: More about RCS. Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2025-01-07 13:38 +0000
                Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-08 10:28 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-08 13:32 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2025-01-08 13:53 +0000
                Re: More about RCS. Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-01-08 15:40 +0000
                Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-08 17:07 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-08 21:06 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-10 10:23 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-10 18:25 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-10 18:24 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-08 21:10 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-10 18:21 +0100
        Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-05 13:00 +0100
      Re: More about RCS. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-04 20:45 -0500
        Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-05 04:05 +0100
          Re: More about RCS. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-01-05 10:46 -0500
            Re: More about RCS. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-05 16:04 +0000
            Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-05 21:45 +0100
        Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-05 13:03 +0100
          Re: More about RCS. micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> - 2025-07-01 08:19 -0400
  Re: More about RCS. "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-01-04 11:00 +0100
    Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-04 12:21 +0100
      Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-05 13:04 +0100
        Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-05 15:20 +0100
          Re: More about RCS. Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-01-05 14:42 +0000
            Re: More about RCS. "s|b" <me@privacy.invalid> - 2025-01-06 20:17 +0100
          Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-05 17:34 +0100
            Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-05 18:46 +0100
              Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-05 21:48 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-05 22:25 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-10 18:28 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-10 20:32 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-11 12:53 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-11 15:32 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-12 16:37 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-10 22:19 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-01-10 22:41 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-01-11 07:40 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-11 12:58 +0100
                Re: More about RCS. Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2025-01-11 12:56 +0100

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