Anyone heard of

Paul K · 13-04-2005, 17:59

http://www.sms.ac ? Have been sent an invite but to be honest it looks a little dodgy to me. Anyone had any dealings with it?

Temporal · 13-04-2005, 18:08

Harvesting email addresses by the looks of it - ignore it mate.

paulyoung666 · 13-04-2005, 18:08

been using it for a while and i have not noticed any problems with spyware or anything

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Originally Posted by Temporal

Harvesting email addresses by the looks of it - ignore it mate.

if it is then i aint noticed any problems with my ntl e-mail account

Paul K · 13-04-2005, 18:16

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

been using it for a while and i have not noticed any problems with spyware or anything

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Originally Posted by Temporal

Harvesting email addresses by the looks of it - ignore it mate.

if it is then i aint noticed any problems with my ntl e-mail account

I've seen it mentioned that they charge 25p per text received, is that right??

paulyoung666 · 13-04-2005, 18:19

gulp , i dont know about that , i will go and check

edit - 5 free sms a day , i seem to recall that i went over this limit and it wouldnt let me send anymore , cant see anything about costing to recieve them , phew

Paul K · 13-04-2005, 18:27

Well this is what it came up with for O2 users
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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

gulp , i dont know about that , i will go and check

edit - 5 free sms a day , i seem to recall that i went over this limit and it wouldnt let me send anymore , cant see anything about costing to recieve them , phew

You can get 10 free sms messages a day from http://www.118888.co.uk/sms.jsp if you don't mind sending from a pc

paulyoung666 · 13-04-2005, 18:30

the top line of that is the key i reckon , i have not been charged for anything , and if i have read it right then the first 5 web to phone sms are free and after that they would cost 25p , again if i have read it right , all recieving on a mobile is free , if you see what i mean

Paul K · 13-04-2005, 18:34

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

the top line of that is the key i reckon , i have not been charged for anything , and if i have read it right then the first 5 web to phone sms are free and after that they would cost 25p , again if i have read it right , all recieving on a mobile is free , if you see what i mean

Unless the person you send the message to replies in which case they get charged 25p for sending it back through the web service if they don't realise it's not going direct to the mobile??

KingPhoenix · 13-04-2005, 18:36

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Originally Posted by Paul

http://www.sms.ac ? Have been sent an invite but to be honest it looks a little dodgy to me. Anyone had any dealings with it?

Caspar sent me a link to sign up with it,..... its expensive... they give you a few free per week i think it is... and then after that they charge you a SHED load

paulyoung666 · 13-04-2005, 18:38

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Originally Posted by Paul

Unless the person you send the message to replies in which case they get charged 25p for sending it back through the web service if they don't realise it's not going direct to the mobile??

you may be right i am not totally sure

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Caspar sent me a link to sign up with it,..... its expensive... they give you a few free per week i think it is... and then after that they charge you a SHED load

but you would have to register a mobile to be able to be charged , i only use it once in a while anyway when i have run out of payg credit , easy enough to stop using it i reckon , i will sign up with paul's link further up the page

Richard M · 13-04-2005, 18:43

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Originally Posted by Paul

Well this is what it came up with for O2 users
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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

gulp , i dont know about that , i will go and check

edit - 5 free sms a day , i seem to recall that i went over this limit and it wouldnt let me send anymore , cant see anything about costing to recieve them , phew

You can get 10 free sms messages a day from http://www.118888.co.uk/sms.jsp if you don't mind sending from a pc

Haha yeah, use that site - as the only web developer in 118 Ltd, I'm responsible for it.

(but I didn't design/code it BTW)

13-04-2005, 19:00

Don't use it, I constantly get invites off people who have joined, the site uses their MSN contact list to advertise the site and will keep sending you invites until you join, if you are on a person's MSN contact list and they join you will get invites.

It's a pain to all the people who are on your MSN contact list!

Paul K · 13-04-2005, 19:04

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Originally Posted by Diamond

Don't use it, I constantly get invites off people who have joined, the site uses their MSN contact list to advertise the site and will keep sending you invites until you join, if you are on a person's MSN contact list and they join you will get invites.

It's a pain to all the people who are on your MSN contact list!

You can manually choose the people it sends the invite to now, I had a look at the site, bloody thing keeps crashing though when you get to a certain point of the registration

Matthew · 13-04-2005, 20:22

I've heard of it as a lot of my mates from school seem to use it but I wouldn't touch it with a barge poll.

Roy MM · 13-04-2005, 20:24

10 sms a day free:- http://www.118888.co.uk/sms.jsp