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Re: group texting solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Burchett)
Fri Feb 17 09:32:37 2012
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:32:25 -0500
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From: Brian Burchett <bburchet@ND.EDU>
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Brian G.,
Would you be open to something like Frontline SMS?
With Frontline SMS you can set up groups for distribution of text messages, and trigger a bulk messaging event by sending a text with a keyword to the Frontline SMS host.
Frontline is open-source. It completely bypasses a standard TCP/IP client-server environment, however. You would need a GSM modem or a cell phone that you can connect to your computer via USB or Bluetooth.
More info can be found at: http://www.frontlinesms.com/the-software/requirements/
Brian Burchett
Learning Spaces -- Office of Information Technology
University of Notre Dame
574.631.5603 -- bburchet@nd.edu
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Subject: group texting solution
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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Wheaton College
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