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Date:      Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:26:42 +0000
From:      Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com>
To:        Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Michael C . Wu" <keichii@peorth.iteration.net>
Subject:   GSM (was Re: VCD...)
Message-ID:  <20010123202642.38328@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <v04220801b692754eb4e8@[10.0.1.2]>; from Brad Knowles on Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:44:12AM %2B0100
References:  <XFMail.010122144300.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <xzp7l3op63h.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <v04220804b691ccae7ff9@[10.0.1.2]> <20010122202052.17979@localhost> <v04220801b692754eb4e8@[10.0.1.2]>

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On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:44:12AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 8:20 PM +0000 2001/1/22, Scott Mitchell wrote:
> 
> >  Perhaps in Belgium you can only SMS people on your own network (analogous
> >  to only being able to email people who use the same ISP as you)?  I agree
> >  that would suck.
> 
> 	That's pretty much the situation we have.  People using real GSMs 
> can send SMSes to anyone, but any computer using an SMS gateway (for 
> which they still pay money for each and every SMS sent) can only send 
> them to others on the same network.

You're right, that's stupid.  I guess people using the dialup gateways are
a small enough minority that they can get away with ripping them off?

	Scott

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