all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

Jared Mauch jared at puck.nether.net
Fri Nov 8 18:33:49 UTC 2019



> On Nov 8, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Matt Hoppes <mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote:
> 
> “During an internal maintenance cycle last night, 168,149 previously undelivered text messages were inadvertently sent to multiple mobile operators’ subscribers," Syniverse said in a statement. 
> 
> 
> how do you inadvertently send messages that were supposed to be sent but worked and sent? Isn’t that the desired outcome?

I run mailing lists.  I’ve had times where I find something stuck in the system and instead of just deleting it, I actually try to make sure it goes out based on the original intent.  This has resulted in me sending out e-mails a year or two later at times.

- Jared




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