Why need a special program in Squeak, any emailprogram can already do it?

- As owner of a cellphone I go to the website of an SMS-service
- I announce my number to this service
- It sends a password to my cellphone
- Then I can create an account (I limit the message lenght to 160)

>From that moment everyone with an emailprogram can send my phone an sms:
1. create the email-adress
- type + for internationa access
- type the country code of the cellarphone provider
- type the cellarphone number (minus the leading zero)
- add @<sms service provider name>
2. create the message IN THE SUBJECT HEADER OF THE EMAIL (no body message)
3. send... within seconds it arrives in my cellphone.

(I like the easy way the owner of the cellphone can open an account and it
is still a free service... for how long?)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Rueger [mailto:m.rueger at acm.org]
> Sent: dinsdag 15 januari 2002 17:31
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: Squeak goes SMS?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> John Hinsley wrote:
> > 
> > Can anyone point me to any (reasonably user freindly) 
> documentation on
> > SMS?
> > 
> > I thought (in my naivity) that doing an SMS client for 
> Squeak would be
> > (relatively) easy. (Nothing sophisticated, just a way of 
> sending text
> > messages to mobile phones/cellphones.) Currently I'm drowning in an
> > alphabet soup and trying to make sense of some seriously 
> alpha packages
> > for Linux.
> > 
> > I thought someone in the land of the phreaker might have some ideas.
> 
> I always wondered how this works? Where do you connect to and 
> who do you
> have to pay?
> 
> A totally different approach would be to connect Squeak to a 
> web service
> sending SMS:
> http://www.xmethods.com/
> http://www.xmethods.com/detail.html?id=242
> 
> Michael
>