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Old 02-13-2008, 01:51 AM
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Originally Posted by wldthng842 View Post
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.
WITHIN the phone, maybe... computer-based software that sends messages through a tethered phone is a piece of cake, though, and will work with a non-PPC phone. Motorola Phone Tools will let you send bulk SMS messages from your computer with a Motorola phone attached (like my previous two phones, a V710 and a V3c RAZR); scripting something or writing a custom app to do the same would be a piece of cake for a coder with an SDK.

And for that matter, it's not stopping the spammers from using SMS instead... so what's next, SMS is blocked as well? Maybe they just do away with SMS and MMS support altogether? Then they can get rid of outgoing email service for their internet customers as well, because email spammers can use that too...

Nope. None of Sprint's "excuses" wash. Try again.
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