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Originally Posted by guitardoc64

First off, do we have to resort to insults?

I am in the category of those who added picmail to my non-supported phone last year. I paid $5 a month for the added service and Sprint took my money and provided the service, no questions asked. They took the money even after the vision package included picmail. Then they blocked it. Even BrettW over at sprintusers conceded my point.

I understand your point but you received a working version of MMS while paying for it thus far, it now is back to the way is supposed to be and you are entitled to stop paying the fee.

Originally Posted by Soundy

So the question is, how does this stop the spammers from simply getting a cheap non-PPC phone to perpetuate their spam?

This argument is bullshit. If they'd killed picmail completely, for everyone, it MIGHT fly... the fact that it's only disabled for PPC phones kills it utterly. The fact that few, if any, other carriers appears to feel it's necessary to deny this feature ONLY to PPC users doesn't help Sprint's story much either.

Regular phones are very difficult to write programs for, PPC's are very easy to write programs for, especially one that simply sends lots of MMS messages on a client that is already there, this is not BS. It is easy to block any outside user that sends more than X in under Y number of minutes, it is however not easy to distinguish whether an authorized user is sending 50 spam messages or 50 MMS of a friend doing something stupid at a party to all their friends.

And lastly. Sorry about calling jparks29 an idiot. I did not read the post after typing it and my GF had been nagging me for over an hour to take my new puppy out and get him ready for bed. I was hurrying to finish and attend to the dog. Please accept my apology, I have also edited the post to attempt to say what I was actually thinking. I know better and should have caught it. I am truly sorry.