On Wed, July 13, 2011 08:46, Jerry Kaidor wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Here's something that comes up routinely:
> *
People I do business with all have cell phones.
> * All the cell
phones can receive text messages.
> * The cell phone companies
have magic email addresses that convert emails
> into text
messages. For example 1234567...@vtext.com sends a text to
>
phone # 123-456-7890, but ONLY if that happens to be a Verizon #.
> * So when I want to send a text to somebody, I go cruise the web
looking
> for
> listings of cell phone companies.
>
> So I think it would be a nice plugin for SM to have a
"text address"
> button, where you type in a phone # and
it magically pops the "texting"
> email address into the
To: field.
>
> The only thing I see that's hard about
this is maintaining a database of
> the cell phone exchanges. Or
possibly doing HTML scraping on the fly
> when
> somebody
presses the button. Of course, HTML scraping tends to break
>
whenever somebody updates their website.
>
>
- Jerry Kaidor
? Having a local table might make more
sense.� It would be a time consuming process to scrape the world to
figure out the extension even if that isn't private.� Possibly a list
of options via radio buttons or check boxes, but that would require the
person sending the email to know the network.�
However,
your suggestion got me thinking.� How about an option to send to txt
which would strip all but the minimum out.� Problem with txt messages
is they have to be short.� For example have it pull the
signature.� Just a thought.
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