> 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 1234567890@xxxxxxxxx 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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