Almost all AT&T phones do the 'zackt same thing!! I send my friends and family folks messages all the time that way...
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----- Original Message -----
From: sean p. horan
To: Matt Clark
Cc: azipa@egroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: [azipa] SPAM Text Message
Couple things,
You can email any voicestream phone simply by trying something along the
lines of 4805703646@voicestream.net. Different cell phone providers own
different prefixes...I dunno what your phone number is, but I'm sure
it's quite easy to figure out what service owns what specific prefix and
write a for loop that simply mails anyone in {480,602}-570-xxxx, and
suddenly you've beeped 10,000 people with your spam. This is probably
what happened to you.
On a more ornery note, I think we have to realize that spam is rather
inevitable, and it doesn't do a whole lot of good to get all flustered
about it. Come on folks, don't let people live rent free in your mind.
Moreover, when one writes and complains about spam to 2,000 people and
then a discussion pops up about it, you've effectively passed that
original annoyance on a hundred-thousand fold. Unless this spammer
flooded your mailbox with a thousand messages and you're paying to
recieve each one that goes in over your limit, I think it's probably
best to just pass it off as one of those assholic things that some
people have a tendency to do.
just my $0.02 and an overly candid attitude,
--sean
Matt Clark wrote:
>
> Group,
>
> I received my first SPAM to my digital phone today. It appeared as a test
> message addressed to me and mentioned how I could get low mortgage rates.
> This seemed to upset me far more than SPAM email. My question is this. Is
> my carrier selling my number or is this a number game through software?
>
> Any ideas or info would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Matt Clark
> RNi
> 480-344-3144
>
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