On Apr 20, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Daniel Brown wrote:
I don't really like to, because I run the risk of getting my IP
or even
netblock blacklisted, but I can't think of any other way to do it
if the
user doesn't know what carrier the number belongs to. Any ideas on
this
subject, I'm absolutely more than willing to listen. The way I did
it is a
hack, no question.... and an ugly one at that. It works, but not
at all the
way I want it to. And even if it's only about 0.3K per message
sent, it
adds up over time.
On 4/20/07, Stut <stuttle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Daniel Brown wrote:
> The option that you're discussing is what I've been using for
the
last
> several years. All of the ones you sent look correct, from
memory, but
I'd
> have to check my scripts to see for sure. When I'm sending a
message, I
> just send it to all of the providers, because one phone number
can only
> exist on one carrier at any given time, so the bounces just go to
> /dev/null.
Speaking on behalf of ISPs around the world, please don't do that.
Take
the time to figure it out and do it properly. Don't pollute the
internet
with more pointless emails.
-Stut
How does Yahoo do it? You can send text messages through YMessenger
and all you need is the number. You can probably do that with others
but that's the only one I've ever used.
I'd be surprised if they are sending out billions of useless emails a
day just to get it to work.
Are phone numbers assigned like ip addresses? Is there an arin.net
for phones? I would think there is some way they keep track of all that.
Ed
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