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Subject: Re: Removing members from text messaging group
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 17:24:00 +0100
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On 10.11.24 14:04, Andy Burns wrote:
> W. Greenhouse wrote:
> 
>> Worth noting here that SMS/MMS group texts are really basically
>> reply-all chains
> 
> MMS messages are, but not SMS, where every message to every recipient is 
> an individual message.
> 
> Google got that "wrong" on early Android messaging apps, by promoting 
> SMS messages to MMS when there were multiple recipients involved, what 
> they didn't realise was that there's a USA -> Europe difference where 
> MMS messages tend to be expensive while SMS messages are often 
> effectively free.

Most European providers stopped MMS years ago.

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