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Re: group texting solution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Wieringa)
Fri Feb 17 14:23:19 2012
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 14:20:54 -0500
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You can set up multiple user accounts, and they can be logged in simultaneously. Additional accounts besides the administrator login only have rights to Send messages to individual numbers, pre-configured names in the Address Book, and pre-configured Groups. (Cannot add Address Book entries or Group entries.) I have not found anyway to customize these user accounts for greater access. As for firewall lists, it does have an "Allowed Networks" feature to allow subnets, or individual IP addresses to access the device.
Chris
>>> On 2/17/2012 at 11:05 AM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio@UOGUELPH.CA> wrote:
> Chris,
>
> Can multiple people use the web interface? So a many to one relationship?
>
> Also, does it have security built in, i.e. can I build firewall rules on the
> device so that only certain PCs can talk to it?
>
> Thanks, Lelio
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Christopher Wieringa" <cwieri39@calvin.edu>
> To: RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 10:58:35 AM
> Subject: Re: group texting solution
>
>>>> 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
>
> --
> --
> Chris Wieringa
> cwieri39@calvin.edu
> Sr. Systems Engineer
> Calvin Information Technology
>
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