OT: old farts recollecting -- Re: ASR1002

Sun Apr 18 06:35:11 UTC 2010

> James Hess [mailto:mysidia at 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