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Re: [Asrg] News Article - Spam on cellphones

2003-06-30 15:56:39
In message <878yrkhh67(_dot_)fsf(_at_)deneb(_dot_)enyo(_dot_)de>, Florian Weimer <fw(_at_)deneb(_dot_)enyo(_dot_)de> writes
Yakov Shafranovich <research(_at_)solidmatrix(_dot_)com> writes:

There is no reason why cell phone companies around the world could
not have developed a separate messaging framework NOT based on SMTP
and email.

SMS (at least in GSM-based networks) differs a lot from email: limited
size, messages may be discarded etc.  It's certainly not similar to
SMTP.

And with SMS I don't think there's any way to prevent the sender knowing their message was successfully delivered if they sent it with a delivery receipt. Ideal for spammers unfortunately.
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