On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, steve pirk [egrep] <steve@pirk.com> wrote:
Have you looked at Google Voice much? I have mine set up to SMS all my devices, including email delivery, and can enable/disable devices as needed. The big benefit, is that I have an inbox full of all my old inbound and outbound text messages.
Hi Steve, Google voice is a fine service and if they sold it with an API, I might well buy it. As a free public service with a strictly unofficial API, I can't seriously consider using it in my product's critical path. I need a service whose provider is actually obligated to keep it working to the standard of resilience typical of the rest of my system. Let me put it another way: with google voice, google mail, google search you are not the customer. You're the product. I use gmail for my personal mail and I can live with that. For business services, I need to be the customer. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004