OK, thanks again. We may give it a try.
On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 12:32 PM, Shal Farley
<shals2nd@...> wrote:
Michael,
> Do you know if using email to text would work? ie
> 1234567890@... ?
I don't know.
It has been ages (when I owned a basic flip-phone) since I've tried using a carrier's SMS gateway with an email list (a Yahoo Group). I seem to recall that I made it work, sort-of, but it wasn't very useful. Something like the 160 character limit was all consumed by the email address and other stuff, leaving no room for the message text itself.
In Groups.io the first challenge would be getting the gateway address confirmed - you'd have to be able to reply to the confirmation message and I think that was a sticking point. Or, if you have a premium group you could avoid that problem by using Direct Add.
If you run the experiment and get a useful result that would be a nice how-to article to post here, and/or in GMF's Wiki.
Shal
