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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:22:25 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c)
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010122152225.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <xzp7l3op63h.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On 22-Jan-01 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > 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.

Well, true, but only recently have Australian operators gotten their asses into gear
and organised this :-/

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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