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Old 02-13-2008, 01:53 AM
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Originally Posted by Soundy View Post
That still doesn't make sense - why would that block it for PPC phones but not for regular phones? And again the question, what's the stop the spammers from using a regular phone that does support MMS? Or for that matter, an MMS gateway of their own?

Sorry, but it's still a BS excuse.
Well put. 90% of all spam will be sent from MMSC's hosted on an individual's computer. There are several MMSC applications readily available, NOW SMS MMS Gateway, Mbuni, etc. A spammer would just use whatever is readily available and can't be tracked. Why would they use Sprint's MMS server (which is actually Lightsurf's, owned by Verisign) that would log every connection to it? Don't you think they would use a private server they had control over to prevent logging?

Sprint's "anti-spam" argument is simply a rumor that was generated by some customer-facing rep that wanted to say something clever and believable to take the heat off themselves.
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