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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: RCS messaging
Date: 2 Apr 2025 19:17:58 GMT
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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)).

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