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Re: Sending SMS messages by E-mail + Sending E-mail from an SMS cellphone



On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 06:16:00PM +0200, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> Why is this exploitation? When I bought my cellcom phone, about 18 months
> ago, I did it with the promise that Celcom will soon have a free SMS-sending
> site. And they kept their promise. Making personal use of that site (and
> sending an email to a gateway in the express purpose that the gateway uses
> the site for you counts as personal use) is fair, in my opinion.

Thing is - it wasn't just for my personal use.
After some rumours went around, the forwarder's popularity grew and
it spread around thousands of Orange users, mostly teenagers. The last
count results in about 10,000 unique users who used it to forward
messages to Cellcom subscribers. The service was passing on around
3000-4000 SMSes a day.

For this, about 250 acounts were automatically created on iSend :)
Although this doesn't violate their terms of agreement, somebody
probably didn't like it and shut it down (403 from our IP + a stupid
legal suit treat e-mail). The forwarder stayed active for Orange -
to - Pelephone forwarders, until OrangeWalla also cried out.
Then I decided to shut it down.

> Anyway, if they block your IP, why don't you try doing this from another IP?
> If you can't get another IP, you can try using your ISP's proxy server (if
> it has one). If Orange or Cellcom block access to their sites to entire
> ISPs' proxy servers, they'll cut the branch they're sitting on.

I have 4 C-classes in disposal for this server, and I can use anonymous
proxies as well - but I can understand when I'm not wanted.

> This is interesting news :) (P.S. I was under the impression that Orange
> doubled their SMS prices a few months ago...)

In my last Orange bill, I calculated the price per SMS, summing
national and international SMSes and it was exactly 9ag per SMS.

Cellcom did raise their prices though.
 
> Anybody knows if gosms.com still exist? They used to have a SMS-to-Email
> gateway, and much more.

GoSMS is dead AFAIK, also as a result of Partner being annoying
arrogant bastards.

-- 
Best regards,
Ilya Konstantinov

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