Yahoo! has an SMS gateway, as do AOL and MSN, among others. AOL's
Instant Messenger SMS short code, for example, is 265060 (AOL-060), which is
what appears when an AOL or AIM user sends a message to a mobile device.
For reference, there's an excellent Wiki article on the subject, which
includes carrier email domains and links to gateways:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_gateways
And a (perhaps outdated) comparison table of providers:
http://www.developershome.com/sms/smsGatewayProvComp.asp
On 4/20/07, Edward Vermillion <evermillion@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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