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Re: group texting solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Wieringa)
Fri Feb 17 11:00:47 2012
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:58:35 -0500
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From: Christopher Wieringa <cwieri39@calvin.edu>
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>>> On 2/17/2012 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!
I just purchased and began using a SF100-G from MultiTech ( http://www.multitech.com/en_US/PRODUCTS/Families/MultiModemiSMS/ ) in January for SMS texting. It is a small stand alone device that attaches to your network, with a web interface and programming API. We are programming to the API to embed it into our existing systems, but it has a nice web interface that allows for making a address book, groups, etc. It also receives texts just fine if you are looking for two-way communication.
Chris
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Chris Wieringa
cwieri39@calvin.edu
Sr. Systems Engineer
Calvin Information Technology
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