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- 12-10-2004, 08:18 AM #16John NavasGuest
Re: Cell Phone - National Do Not Call Registry - **Information Alert**
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In <[email protected]> on Thu, 09 Dec 2004
22:31:42 -0700, Michelle Steiner <[email protected]> wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>,
> "Richard Ness" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Or your worn out sig....("provoking contempt")
>> The election is over Michelle, PLEASE maybe enough is enough?...
>
>Impeachment has nothing to do with the election. Clinton's re-election
>didn't stop the GOP from their impeachment efforts.
>
>Yes, enough is enough; I've had enough of Bush's malfeasance in office.
Your signature is OK; this posting is not. Please stay on-topic, and keep
politics in a more appropriate forum. Thank you.
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- 12-10-2004, 08:20 AM #17John NavasGuest
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In <5%[email protected]> on Fri, 10 Dec 2004
07:12:01 GMT, "Protest" <protest@no_thanks.com> wrote:
>"John Navas" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>>
>> In <[email protected]> on Fri, 10 Dec 2004
>> 00:07:49 GMT, "Protest" <protest@no_thanks.com> wrote:
>>
>> >It's good that SMS spam is actionable. What's not good is
>> >that spam (SMS or not) "can be" sent in such a way that
>> >makes it very difficult to trace the sender of the SMS spam.
>> >Even worse, the sender can be in a different country.
>> >An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure here.
>>
>> It's actually quite practical for the carrier to trace the origins of SMS
>> messages.
>You are clueless about how difficult it can be to
>trace the sender of SMS messages.
Read more carefully -- I said: "It's actually quite practical for the carrier
to trace the ORIGINS [not sender] of SMS messages." [emphasis added] And it
is, as you would know if you were more familiar with GSM infrastructure,
including SMS gateways.
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- 12-10-2004, 08:21 AM #18John NavasGuest
Re: Cell Phone - National Do Not Call Registry - **Information Alert**
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In <[email protected]> on Thu, 09 Dec 2004 23:44:57 -0800, Steve
Sobol <[email protected]> wrote:
>Protest wrote:
>> You're wrong. Text messaging (or SMS) here requires
>> the cell number.
>
>No, it most certainly does not.
>
>At least not with some carriers.
>
>Definitely not with Verizon - they allow you to define an email alias that
>forwards to your [email protected]. Probably there are other
>carriers that do this too.
PhoneNumberWithAreaCode is the "cell number" -- no?
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- 12-10-2004, 11:02 AM #19JosephGuest
Re: Cell Phone - National Do Not Call Registry - **Information Alert**
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:06:24 GMT, "Protest" <protest@no_thanks.com>
wrote:
>
>You're wrong. Text messaging (or SMS) here requires
>the cell number. And, is very pertinent to the subject under
>discussion.
Ah, I see you like to play Jeopardy! No, it is not under discussion.
It's telemarketing. Learn the difference between telemarketing and
spamming. They are *not* the same thing. One uses voice the other is
sent through email.
>
>
>
>"Joseph" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:52:46 GMT, "Protest" <protest@no_thanks.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Don't forget that cell phones also have text messaging features that
>> >facilitate another form of spam.
>>
>> Except you're not dealing with the subject at hand. Go start another
>> thread about text messaging spam if that's what you're after. This
>> thread is about telemarketing to cell phones.
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- 12-10-2004, 11:02 AM #20JosephGuest
Re: Cell Phone - National Do Not Call Registry - **Information Alert**
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:06:24 GMT, "Protest" <protest@no_thanks.com>
wrote:
>
>You're wrong. Text messaging (or SMS) here requires
>the cell number. And, is very pertinent to the subject under
>discussion.
Ah, I see you like to play Jeopardy! No, it is not under discussion.
It's telemarketing. Learn the difference between telemarketing and
spamming. They are *not* the same thing. One uses voice the other is
sent through email.
>
>
>
>"Joseph" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:52:46 GMT, "Protest" <protest@no_thanks.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >Don't forget that cell phones also have text messaging features that
>> >facilitate another form of spam.
>>
>> Except you're not dealing with the subject at hand. Go start another
>> thread about text messaging spam if that's what you're after. This
>> thread is about telemarketing to cell phones.
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- 12-10-2004, 11:09 AM #21PhilipGuest
Re: Cell Phone - National Do Not Call Registry - **Information Alert**
Joseph wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:06:24 GMT, "Protest" <protest@no_thanks.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> You're wrong. Text messaging (or SMS) here requires
>> the cell number. And, is very pertinent to the subject under
>> discussion.
>
> Ah, I see you like to play Jeopardy! No, it is not under
> discussion. It's telemarketing. Learn the difference between
> telemarketing and spamming. They are *not* the same thing. One
> uses voice the other is sent through email.
Agreed. "Spam" is specific to email advertising. Use your spam filters to
block it.
"Telemarketing" involves voice contact. Use an answering machine and
register your phone number with the government registry to stop it.
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- 12-10-2004, 11:09 AM #22PhilipGuest
Re: Cell Phone - National Do Not Call Registry - **Information Alert**
Joseph wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:06:24 GMT, "Protest" <protest@no_thanks.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> You're wrong. Text messaging (or SMS) here requires
>> the cell number. And, is very pertinent to the subject under
>> discussion.
>
> Ah, I see you like to play Jeopardy! No, it is not under
> discussion. It's telemarketing. Learn the difference between
> telemarketing and spamming. They are *not* the same thing. One
> uses voice the other is sent through email.
Agreed. "Spam" is specific to email advertising. Use your spam filters to
block it.
"Telemarketing" involves voice contact. Use an answering machine and
register your phone number with the government registry to stop it.
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- Philip
- 12-10-2004, 12:16 PM #23Steve SobolGuest
Re: Cell Phone - National Do Not Call Registry - **Information Alert**
John Navas wrote:
> PhoneNumberWithAreaCode is the "cell number" -- no?
Yes, but at least one carrier allows you to have people send you SMS without
ever knowing your phone number. I used to be sjsobol [at] vtext.com as well as
7605551212 [at] vtext.com (and 4405551212 [at] vtext.com when I lived in Ohio;
yes, obviously that's not my real cell phone number, the 760 cell number is
still active and I'm not posting it here, and I don't want to hear any
wisecracks from the peanut gallery)
That was with Verizon. I could have given out sjsobol [at] vtext.com all day as
my SMS address and no one would ever have to have known my cell number; better
yet, the alias didn't change when I moved cross-country and received a new number.
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- 12-10-2004, 12:26 PM #24Michelle SteinerGuest
Re: Cell Phone - National Do Not Call Registry - **Information Alert**
In article <[email protected]>,
"Philip" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Agreed. "Spam" is specific to email advertising.
And to newsgroups.
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- 12-10-2004, 12:27 PM #25John NavasGuest
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In <[email protected]> on Fri, 10 Dec 2004 10:16:53 -0800, Steve
Sobol <[email protected]> wrote:
>John Navas wrote:
>
>> PhoneNumberWithAreaCode is the "cell number" -- no?
>
>Yes, but at least one carrier allows you to have people send you SMS without
>ever knowing your phone number. I used to be sjsobol [at] vtext.com as well as
>7605551212 [at] vtext.com (and 4405551212 [at] vtext.com when I lived in Ohio;
>yes, obviously that's not my real cell phone number, the 760 cell number is
>still active and I'm not posting it here, and I don't want to hear any
>wisecracks from the peanut gallery)
>
>That was with Verizon. I could have given out sjsobol [at] vtext.com all day as
>my SMS address and no one would ever have to have known my cell number; better
>yet, the alias didn't change when I moved cross-country and received a new number.
My cell carrier (Cingular) doesn't have that option (AFAIK), but I accomplish
the same thing with a special email address that forwards automatically to my
Cingular SMS gateway address, which has the additional benefit that I can
easily change my special email address to something else if it ever gets
compromised.
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- 12-10-2004, 12:40 PM #26ProtestGuest
Re: Cell Phone - National Do Not Call Registry - **Information Alert**
My point is ... all that is "needed" in order for
telemarketers to send SMS messages is the cell number,
which the 411 directory makes available.
"Steve Sobol" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> Protest wrote:
> > You're wrong. Text messaging (or SMS) here requires
> > the cell number.
>
> No, it most certainly does not.
>
> At least not with some carriers.
>
> Definitely not with Verizon - they allow you to define an email alias that
> forwards to your [email protected]. Probably there are other
> carriers that do this too.
>
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> Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / 888.480.4NET (4638) / [email protected]
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> Apple Valley, California Nothing scares me anymore. I have three kids.
- 12-10-2004, 12:48 PM #27ProtestGuest
Re: Cell Phone - National Do Not Call Registry - **Information Alert**
With people being able to send SMS via email to cell phones now.
These definitions are changing with the times.
"Joseph" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:06:24 GMT, "Protest" <protest@no_thanks.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >You're wrong. Text messaging (or SMS) here requires
> >the cell number. And, is very pertinent to the subject under
> >discussion.
>
> Ah, I see you like to play Jeopardy! No, it is not under discussion.
> It's telemarketing. Learn the difference between telemarketing and
> spamming. They are *not* the same thing. One uses voice the other is
> sent through email.
> >
> >
> >
> >"Joseph" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> >news:[email protected]...
> >> On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:52:46 GMT, "Protest" <protest@no_thanks.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Don't forget that cell phones also have text messaging features that
> >> >facilitate another form of spam.
> >>
> >> Except you're not dealing with the subject at hand. Go start another
> >> thread about text messaging spam if that's what you're after. This
> >> thread is about telemarketing to cell phones.
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- 12-10-2004, 07:30 PM #28JosephGuest
Re: Cell Phone - National Do Not Call Registry - **Information Alert**
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:48:43 GMT, "Protest" <protest@no_thanks.com>
wrote:
>With people being able to send SMS via email to cell phones now.
>These definitions are changing with the times.
Still playing Jeopardy I guess. Spam is still email and telemarketing
is still voice. There is a difference. You need to learn the
difference!
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- 12-11-2004, 12:10 AM #29John RichardsGuest
Re: Cell Phone - National Do Not Call Registry - **Information Alert**
"David S" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>
> It's just a sig. Can't you simply ignore it?
Like it or not, Usenet posters are judged by their sigs.
Michelle's sig distracts from her otherwise sensible posts.
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- 12-11-2004, 12:15 AM #30John RichardsGuest
Re: Cell Phone - National Do Not Call Registry - **Information Alert**
"Michelle Steiner" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>
> Impeachment has nothing to do with the election. Clinton's re-election
> didn't stop the GOP from their impeachment efforts.
>
> Yes, enough is enough; I've had enough of Bush's malfeasance in office.
So you think a few liberals calling for impeachment of Bush will have any
practical effect? It only reinforces the contempt that the majority of
people have for far left liberals.
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