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Re: group texting solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Steel)
Fri Feb 17 08:56:41 2012
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:54:54 -0500
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From: Chuck Steel <chuck.steel@gmail.com>
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I haven't used any of these services but I have heard of them from other folks:
http://lifehacker.com/5799695/five-best-apps-to-send-group-text-messages-on-the-cheap
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:37 AM, Brian Gibson
<gibson_brian@wheatoncollege.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone found a good solution for easily texting a group of people? I
> know you can create a texting group on certain phone models but I'd rather
> have it so you only need one telephone number entry in your phone's contact
> list that you have to text to that distributes the message out to a handful
> of people? I tried going the mailing list route where you send an email
> (instead of a text) and the mailing list distributes a copy of the message
> to a special address that gets converted to a text (each carrier has their
> own email address convention) but different carriers handled replying to
> that text different and it got confusing.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
>
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