sending a text message to phone when receiving email

[Brian Kelsay]

Monty J. Harder wrote:

> Paul Taylor wrote:
> 
> 
>>Sprint PCS format is : MIN at messaging.sprintpcs.com
>>MIN = Mobile Identification Number or your mobile phone number.
> 
> 
>   What an ungainly concoction!  For the very devices that have limited
> memory and bandwidth, they force a long email address on you!
> Virgin Mobile's techies apparently understand this, and got a separate,
> SHORT domain name for such purposes: number at vmobl.com,
> and since I'm not charged to receive messages, I have my IM Away Message set
> up with a mailto: link to my phone so anyone can text me whenever they need
> to.  It's come in handy several times already.

Most charge for each send and each receive msg.  If you are somewhere w/ 
a net connection, then you save your end by going to the providers 
webpage to send and gain the ease of using a real keyboard.  I send msgs 
to my wife this way, when the voice connection keeps cutting out and I'm 
at work.

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