Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.samoylyk.net!news.hispagatos.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bill Powell Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Google is preparing to replace RCS with MLS Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 09:10:52 +0200 Organization: Hispagatos.org Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 07:10:52 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: matrix.hispagatos.org; logging-data="42606"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@hispagatos.org" User-Agent: XanaNews/1.19.1.372 (x86; Portable ISpell) Bytes: 2769 Lines: 28 On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 10:52:35 -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. Android has been doing text messaging without the Internet for a long time.