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Latest SMS Message Missing? Call Stan Bubrouski
from the seriously? dept
It's no secret that SMS text messages aren't the most reliable. Over the years, we've seen all sorts of estimates on the number of undelivered messages. Some of those are faults with the system, but some of them are simply because the user forgot to put in the recipient. What happens to those messages? Ask Stan Bubrouski. It sounds like a story device from a comic novel (which first had me checking to make sure it wasn't April 1st), but according to eWeek, a college kid named Stan Bubrouski got a Verizon phone in 2001, and (as a joke) signed up to have the username "null" for his text messages -- meaning null@vtext.com supposedly go to his phone. That's a nuisance when messages with no recipient go to null@vtext.com -- and it gets much worse when plenty of big companies send messages to that address, including some who were told that was the proper "test" address for Verizon text messaging. Add to that the growing number of businesses that are using text messages as a way of sending confidential information, such as medical info and SAT test scores, and it seems problematic -- especially given various new laws concerning data leaks.
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Yikes!
With about 10 cents a pop, that must be costing him a fortune.
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Re: Yikes!
Unless he's got the unlimited texting option. Then he's paying nil for "null".
(Best $3.00 he ever spent!!) [or current rate, not a Verizon subscriber myself]
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give him an award
Smart-asses like that should be given an award. What a laugh!
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Imagine what he could do with all that information, He should make a website and post all the SMS messages for all to read!!!!
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That would be sooo great. Who knows, sombody might be having a hard relationship, and we might be able to see a breakup over SMS!!!
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live-SMS show .... ??
okay now that's a little sad...get a life!
But I agree, it could be fun, just a little pathetic though, but fun.
(who am i to call you pathetic? no one. that's right. absolutely no one. so don't go all pissy on me)
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Trust me... You don't want to read all those text messages.
I run a few text message sites, and some providers don't let you spoof the email (so the replies come to me.. even though it says from: don't reply)..
They're auto deleted.. but before I can attest that every message is useless. People talk about pointless stuff over text messages.. and pay for it. I don't get it.
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sup dud r u gn 2 jen hos 2nit?
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That's like the guy who got a personalized license plate 'notag' and got a ton of overdue parking ticket notices for other cars w/out license plates.
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Null Bye
We signed up our softball team with the name "Bye", hoping that other teams would think they had a bye when they were scheduled to play us and wouldn't show up.
We had two goals: Get to the playoffs by forfeit, and start early on the post-game beer drinking.
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Re: Null Bye
did it work??
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bye! :b
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Re: Null Bye TBA
We always joked about starting a band named 'TBA' so that we'd get billing all over town (plus, it's less obvious that "Ladies' Night" and "Free Beer")
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ive got the screename Response@aol.com I get all sorts of stupid emails from people 'responding' to things, you would believe the celebrities that have replied to my email address. Its great. Talk about insider trading ;D
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Re: Null Bye
Didn't work, they made us change the name.
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Re: Null Bye TBA
a better band name would be, "LIVE SEX ACT"....
imagine that one....., "tonight...one night only...LIVE SEX ACT!!!"
people would flock to it....lol
;P
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Re: Null Bye TBA
Hey, it worked for the Bare Naked Ladies.
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Re: Null Bye TBA
that was done in pcu... or something similar
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Re: Null Bye TBA
That was "Everyone Gets Laid" in PCU.
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