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From: "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
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Subject: Re: RCS messaging
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2025 13:02:55 +0200
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On 2025-04-02 21:17, Frank Slootweg wrote:
> Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 22:49:02 +0200, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>>> On 2025-04-01 21:19, Stan Brown wrote:
> [...]
>>>> 2. When I forward a message that I received via Verizon's email-to-
>>>> text feature, and it contains a photo, the photo is queued for
>>>> forwarding but the text is discarded.
>>>
>>> No Verizon here, so can't replicate.
>>
>> You do know that pretty much every carrier maintains a way to send an
>> email to a particular phone number?(*)  It's not just Verizon. (I
>> have Visible, but the email-to-phone thing is the same because
>> Visible uses its corporate parent Verizon's network.)
> 
>    As Andy indicated, in Europe (i.e. for Carlos, Andy and me) - and
> probably most of the rest of the non-US world - these e-mail-to-SMS/MMS
> and vice versa gateways are a thing of the past. These days, people just
> use modern IM (Instant Messaging) platforms (if they only know a
> recipient's phonenumber, but not hir e-mail address).
> 
>    Also MMS is a thing of the past and SMS is mostly a thing of the past
> (except for *receiving* SMS messages (for 2SV and other purposes)).

MMS has never been a thing here, because it is expensive. But it still 
exists. SMS is used a lot for business purposes, I get them often. My 
bank sent me codes yesterday.

> 
> [...]


-- 
Cheers, Carlos.