[125485] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Templin)
Sun Apr 18 02:35:27 2010
From: "Jim Templin" <jimtempl@att.net>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <r2i6eb799ab1004171626k660f569bwb59363b400a28104@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:35:11 -0700
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> James Hess [mailto:mysidia@gmail.com]
> Saturday, April 17, 2010 4:27 PM
>
> Oh SMS/MMS do a few things that make blink tags look utterly
> benign...
> http://www.dreamfabric.com/sms/alert.html
>
> May be possible to send as a flash message that immediately displays
> blinking, and that depending on phone, the recipient doesn't get any
> option to control or save, e.g. forced to read before doing anything
> else, no history or storage of message text once read.
>
> But mail readers with javascript and animated GIFs still have them beat
> overall.
>
> E-Mail readers / text message readers epidemically trust the sender
> too much sometimes, thinking the recipient would rather be annoyed by
> more rich content (or pwned) than disappointed that rich content shows
> as plain text.
>
> --
> -J
Useful adjunct to your junc.
http://www.gsmfavorites.com/documents/sms/packetformat
--
Jim
