Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> Hmm yeah. But that's the US - out here they don't do that at all - they just
> send whatever you want, provided you have enough SMS credit left.

This is a commercial account I'm talking about. If you're just talking about 
sending an SMS from a cell phone over the air, they don't monitor it all 
that closely.

>> Before you can send an SMS via a shortcode (rather than thru a phone), you
>> have to tell them exactly what will be in each SMS, as well as what will
>> be on any web sites you run, down to the punctuation and spacing. If
>> someone sends you the word "STOP" and you send them any messages after,
>> your account turns off.
> 
> Interesting! Is this law or just a particular company's policy?

Every company's policy, but not AFAIK law. Some sort of association rules, 
since any carrier can SMS to any other carrier.

> I've always thought an advantage of living in the third world is the lack of
> regulation (or lack of knowledge, money, personnel, time, etc.) to enforce
> much of existing regulations. Doing certain stuff is easier, but then
> conversely you lack protection and safeties that first world citizens take
> for granted.

Yes, and the problem is that it's far easier to abuse than it is to do 
something good that isn't permitted under regulation. :-) Thus the reason we 
think of "third-world countries" as worse places to live in general.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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