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Re: group texting solution

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Fri Feb 17 19:53:58 2012

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We use this, too, but the fastest I can send is one message per 8 seconds.
I would need to get a multi-SIM model to send messages more quickly.

Frank

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From: Resnet Forum [mailto:RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Christopher Wieringa
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 9:59 AM
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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

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Chris Wieringa
cwieri39@calvin.edu
Sr. Systems Engineer
Calvin Information Technology 

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