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tmoran@acm.org - 29 Dec 2003 06:57 GMT

Is it in general possible for a computer email to be sent to show up as
a textmessage? Do you need some extra-few-dollars-a-month service for
that? (phone-to-phone text messaging works fine) If there is a way,
is there a way to disallow all incoming textmessages from computers
unless they come from a restricted sender list, or have a magic password,
or some other way of avoid text message spam?

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Locutus Borg - 29 Dec 2003 12:55 GMT

I don't see why you can't use the message forwarding feature of your email
package to do that. For example, in Outlook you can set up message
forwarding to send messages to the same address you use for text messaging.
I'm not sure what it will do with HTML formatted messages or messages with
attachments.

> Is it in general possible for a computer email to be sent to show up as
> a textmessage? Do you need some extra-few-dollars-a-month service for
> that? (phone-to-phone text messaging works fine) If there is a way,
> is there a way to disallow all incoming textmessages from computers
> unless they come from a restricted sender list, or have a magic password,
> or some other way of avoid text message spam?

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Brian Oakley - 30 Dec 2003 20:31 GMT

Does Outlook Express have this same feature?
B.

> I don't see why you can't use the message forwarding feature of your email
> package to do that. For example, in Outlook you can set up message
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> > unless they come from a restricted sender list, or have a magic password,
> > or some other way of avoid text message spam?

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Locutus Borg - 02 Jan 2004 14:13 GMT

Brian,
I think so. Look under Tools | Message Rules | Mail.

> Does Outlook Express have this same feature?
> B.
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> password,
> > > or some other way of avoid text message spam?

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