From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 21 20:24:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4AEA37B400; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:24:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id FAA69410; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 05:24:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway , "Michael C . Wu" , Brad Knowles Subject: Re: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c) References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 22 Jan 2001 05:24:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Daniel O'Connor"'s message of "Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:43:00 +1030 (CST)" Message-ID: Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Daniel O'Connor" writes: > On 22-Jan-01 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Brad Knowles writes: > > > Did you know that you can't use any SMS gateway I know of to send > > > SMS messages to customers that are not on the same carrier as the > > > gateway? > > That's simply not true - if it's the case in Belgium, then it's a > > simple case of greed, incompetence or a combination of both. > The GSM providers in Australia used to allow you to use any SMS > gateway, but since SMS has become a big money spinner for them, they > have clamped down and only allow you to use theirs. We must mean different things by "SMS gateway"... If Brad meant "gateways to which an SMS content provider can connect to send SMS messages to end-users", then I stand by my claim that there is no technical obstacle to sending messages to one carrier's customers through another carrier's gateway. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message