[157173] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Wired access to SMS?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Oct 9 17:48:40 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAK4no04wgz8xX2ONkXWbMYWf995qm1=dFKh2Z1pRmarFRToU9w@mail.gmail.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 17:47:56 -0400
To: "steve pirk [egrep]" <steve@pirk.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, steve pirk [egrep] <steve@pirk.com> wrote:
> Have you looked at Google Voice much? I have mine set up to SMS all my
> devices, including email delivery, and can enable/disable devices as
> needed. The big benefit, is that I have an inbox full of all my old inbound
> and outbound text messages.
Hi Steve,
Google voice is a fine service and if they sold it with an API, I
might well buy it. As a free public service with a strictly unofficial
API, I can't seriously consider using it in my product's critical
path. I need a service whose provider is actually obligated to keep it
working to the standard of resilience typical of the rest of my
system.
Let me put it another way: with google voice, google mail, google
search you are not the customer. You're the product. I use gmail for
my personal mail and I can live with that. For business services, I
need to be the customer.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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