Eric,
You are correct, I can send am email to sms. The problem is enabling everyone in the group, with only SMS on the phone, to send messages to everyone else, or a sub group, using just sms.
Mark
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Eric Shubert
<ejs@shubes.net> wrote:
Most (all?) have email to sms gateways.
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/email-to-sms/
http://sms411.net/how-to-send-email-to-a-phone/
You should be able to use any sort of email list software to send a message to list members' SMS addresses.
I'm not sure about sending from SMS to email though.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
On 06/05/2011 12:32 PM, Mark Phillips wrote:
This group always has great suggestions for my odd requirements, so here
I go again....;-)
My two club softball teams are going to out of town for nationals at the
end of June (~26 families). (We might even make ESPN...) We need a way
to send messages to each other, and as a group. Up to this point, I have
been running a private group email list that everyone can use to send
and receive emails for the group. But not everyone has Internet or email
on their phone, so the group email list is not the best option for
everyone. My android phone can send a text message to a group, so I can
handle the issue of schedule changes. But, not everyone's phone on the
two teams can send a group text, which makes those impromptu 'team
lunch' difficult for someone in the group to schedule, unless I become
the group sms operator, which is **not** something I want to do! I am
wondering if there is some open source technology that can help us....
My requirements
1. Send sms to a whole group, part of a group, or individually
2. Work on low end cell phones - ie no Internet plan or email
3. Does not require a lot of setup, either for me or for each person
going. The people on the trip are not techies, but parents of 11-15 year
old softball players (and the players as well).
4. Free, or really low cost as I only need it for ~10 days.
I have a Debian server on Linode for our web site, so I could add some
more software....
I thought of these ideas:
1. pass out a cell phone list to everyone. That solves individual sms
messages, but not group/sub group messaging for those who don't have
that on their phone
2. twitter - maybe a private group? I have not used twitter before, but
I will have challenges getting everyone to sign up for an account.
3. some other sms micro-blog app on my own server?
4. Face to face communication.....how old fashion!
5. Phone trees......from my experience, only works in an emergency.
I am focused on sms only because it seems to be available to every
player and parent on the trip. I am open to any other suggestions y'all
may have!
Thanks,
Mark