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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: More about RCS. Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 02:55:58 +0100 Lines: 36 Message-ID: <e2hm4lxss3.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> References: <vcmenj5cvbs3u0ir6k9upuvhat8t9vm7rc@4ax.com> <vl7u9o$1o6iu$1@solani.org> <6snfnj5880vigl6guglovgq28nr3pl1tp4@4ax.com> <ltr698FcivtU1@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net kPuKTbz3brBjdkLv8zQR9QQSuIEFfMUP/g4p92aVgoWVk4B3H1 X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:fVcTqNtY0gbL+35q8FECRLfCjNI= sha256:JzSPRJRO5BfNK+LnUfrLZM38g3pFEG6lrazkEbfdi6U= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <ltr698FcivtU1@mid.individual.net> Bytes: 2606 On 2025-01-03 23:22, Arno Welzel wrote: > micky, 2025-01-03 14:02: > >> In comp.mobile.android, on Fri, 3 Jan 2025 06:58:16 +0100, Jörg Lorenz >> <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote: > [...] >>> All other messengers have this functionality for years. This is minimum >>> standard. Nothing to write home about. >> >> Really? I never noticed any indication that my emails had been read >> before I got RCS. > > "email" is not "messenger". Don't get confused with that - these are to > fundamental different services. > > E-Mail uses long existing standard protocols like SMTP, POP3, IMAP and > can be used with clients like K9 mail, Google Mail and so on. It is also > a federated infrastrucutre, which means you can have a GMail account but > you can also send e-mails to people at Hotmail or any other custom > domain which has e-mail services enabled - because servers of the > providers accept messages from other providers outside their own > network. Yes, this has some limitations to avoid spam, but this is the > general idea of federation. > > Messengers on the other hand are mostly proprietary non-federated > services like WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Threema etc. which use servers > of the respective provider (like Meta in the case of WhatsApp) and they > send messages using these servers. You also can not send message from > WhatsApp to Signal or Threema. If you have friends using Threema you > either also need a Threema account or you have to convince your friends > to join the messenger service you use yourself. Whereas SMS is guaranteed to exist on any (mobile) phone. -- Cheers, Carlos.