From csch@NetCS.COM Wed Dec 06 22:10:55 1995
Newsgroups: alt.cellular-phone-tech,uk.telecom
Subject: EMail <-> GSM SMS Gateway - Testrun announcement
From: csch@NetCS.COM (Clemens Schrimpe)
Date: 6 Dec 1995 22:10:55 GMT

Hello all -

I am very happy to announce the official test-run of our EMail <-> GSM SMS
gateway until the end of the year.[ RadioPhone NOTE: Its still 
operational 3/1/96 -- drwho ] Unless your service providers charges
for SMS, there will be no additional costs involved during the test.

The system uses a direct link to an SMSC of a major European GSM Network.
It is able to forward mails/short messages in both directions as well as
a number of other features (paging calls via phone, database query
functions and others). If you are interested in trying the latter, please
contact me through EMail. A WWW Interface with enhanced functionality
is available, but not yet open to the public due to ongoing political
considerations.

If you try to use the gateway, please send me a short notice on whether
you succeeded or not, stating which network you have subscribed to as
well as which network you were logged in when trying. In case of problems,
please mail time/date and MISDN’ number of the Mobile Terminal involved.
(’ this is your mobile phone number including country-code and PLMN access
   code, e.g., 491722345678 for a German D2 number)

Be aware, that presently all conversations will be monitored to avoid
excessive use or abuse of the system (i.e., unsolicited mass advertisement,
etc.)! We reserve the right to "blacklist" everyone without notice as well
as to terminate the whole service without prior announcement!!!

Finally, this is how it works:

Internet -> GSM SMS:
	
	Mail to <MISDN-Number>@SMS.NetCS.NET  !
	If there is a non-empty "Subject:", it will be sent. Otherwise
	the mail-body upto 640 characters will be sent.

	Example:
	
		held_41> mail 491722100000@SMS.NetCS.NET
		Subject: Testmessage - pls. ignore!
		EOT
		Null message body; hope that's ok
		held_42>


GSM SMS -> Internet:

	Send a Short Message to 450502304 via the SMSC @ +491722270000 in
	the following format (REGEX):

		user@domainname: message

	Example:
		CSCH*NETCS.COM HELLO, THIS IS A TEST

	NB: The '@' can be replaced with a '*' for phone, which don't have
	    an '@' sign on the keyboard. The ':' is optional! There can
	    be only a single receiver at the present time.
	    You'll receive an acknowledgement message, if your mail was
	    accepted. You SHOULD receive this message in ENGLISH, unless
	    you have a German, Swiss or Austrian network subscription,
	    in which case you'll get a GERMAN message. You are welcome to
	    translate the English message into your native language, if you
	    are neither from DE, AT, CH, UK, IE, to help me to support your
	    fellow countrymen ;-) Please EMail me in this case!

I still need to find a NUMBER of bugs in the code, especially in
the code dealing with messages in various languages. There are more features
to come during next week, when I will introduce receipt notifications,
deferred delivery options, registering "Real Names" to protect your 
mobile identity, etc., just to name a few. 

AGAIN: Please keep me informed about your failures and successes, including
all relevant information. I'll try to keep track of what is available when
where to whom for what cost etc.

Thank you for your cooperation!

	Clemens Schrimpe, NetCS

PS: Please don't try to send to the German D1 or Eplus Networks (prefixes
    49171 and 49177), as these are administratively blocked - sorry!
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