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From: Bill Powell <bill@anarchists.org>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Google is preparing to replace RCS with MLS
Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:05:50 +0200
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On Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:41:07 -0700, Alan wrote:

>>>>>> Nobody on Android has to log into a server to use their mms sms app.
>>>>>> If your Android phone requires it, then you're doing something wrong.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What Android phone are you using which requires a login account?
>>>>>
>>>>> The credentials to use sms/mms are stored in the SIM ...
>>>>
>>>> But that works independent of any Internet login password server 
>>>> accounts.
>>>
>>> What is an "internet login password server account"?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nobody on Android has to connect to the Internet with a login & password
>>>> account just to use the default messaging that comes with every Android.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure about MLS or RCS though, as that's not the default, is it?
>>>
>>> If you want to receive messages, you must identify yourself and 
>>> authenticate that you are the authorized recipient of those messages.
>> 
>> Your knowledge level is so lacking that it's hard to respond nicely.
>> 
>> If I have to explain to you what the Internet is, then you have no business
>> making your outrageous claims that Android can't do text messaging without
>> having to enter a login and password into an Internet server account.
> 
> I never said it was a "internet server account".
> 
>> 
>> Android has been doing text messaging without the Internet for a long time.
> 
> And that text messaging requires a form of logging in that's just so 
> transparent to you, you don't notice it.
> 
> The SIM card logs you in to your cellular provider.
> 
> Do you know what "SIM" means:
> 
> "Subscriber Identity Module".

I was aware you have no idea what the Internet is and therefore you don't
have any clue that Android text messaging has worked fine and still works
fine without entering a login & password into an account on a server on it.