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| From | "Alan K." <alan@invalid.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 22:54 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <vskt9i$3eecc$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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Cross-posted to 4 groups.
On 4/2/25 07:44 PM, Marion 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).
>
> 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.
The google messaging app uses RCS.
https://postimg.cc/RNKTNHNG
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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
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