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Re: group texting solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Gibson)
Fri Feb 17 09:33:30 2012
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:32:59 -0500
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From: Brian Gibson <gibson_brian@wheatoncollege.edu>
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Hi Chuck,
Thanks for sending these over. I kinda wanted to stay away from an app
since we have to support someone in the group with an older flip phone.
The Google Voice one would be perfect but the group has 7 people in it
and that service only allows up to 5 people. I was thinking more along
the lines of an external service that provides you with one phone number
that distributes out.... that would also let us manage the group of
phone numbers in one place instead of trying to make sure that all 7
members keep their own phones up to date with everyone else's numbers.
They are managers so we have to hand hold :-)
Thanks again,
Brian
On 2/17/2012 8:54 AM, Chuck Steel wrote:
> 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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