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From: Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid>
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Subject: Re: RCS messaging
Date: 3 Apr 2025 15:47:00 GMT
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micky <NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com> wrote:
> In comp.mobile.android, on 3 Apr 2025 12:26:19 GMT, Frank Slootweg
> <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:
> 
> >Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> wrote:
[...]
> >> Some benefits of sending email to SMS include:
> >> 
> >> ? Better reach: thanks to a 98% open rate, you know that your message
> >>   will be seen.
> 
> yes, I sometimes get something on Whatsapp and don't know I've gotten it
> for days or longer, even when I've had the phone on. 

  If you get a WhatsApp message, you should get a 'ringtone' and a
notification in the notification area of your phone, i.e. similar to
what you would get for a SMS/'text' message. So if you don't get these
for WhatsApp messages, you have disabled/silenced these notifications in
some way.

[...]

> >> You might have trouble sending Whatsapps to me, as I am not on it.
> >
> >  When I would try to reach you (assuming I know your mobile number),
> >WhatsApp would tell me you don't have WhatsApp, so I would use SMS. No
> >problem! :-)
> 
> When I was trrying to whatsapp someone who didn't have whatsapp, the
> only indication was that in my contact list, it didn't have a whatsapp
> entry, but at the time, I didn't know if that meant anything or not. I
> don't know how those entries get there.  Certainly nothing "told me"
> that he didn't have whatsapp.

  I said "When I would try to reach you ... WhatsApp would tell me you
don't have WhatsApp", so you get this notification when you actually
*try*, obviously not before.

  It happens when you try to add a new 'Chat' ('+' icon on white and
green background). Because it's a new contact (for WhatsApp), you go to
'New contact' (in *WhatsApp*, *not* in the Contacts app). As soon as you
enter the phone number of the intended contact, WhatsApp will say "This
person is not on WhatsApp". So you either do a 'Invite to WhatsApp' or
in this/Richmond's case, use SMS instead.

  Elementary, dear Watson!

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