Has anyone experimented with cell phone subscribers to your lists?
Since most cell phones with text messaging capabilities associate email
addresses with phone numbers, it should be possible to set up some sort
of text messaging list.
 
When looking into this, we're finding some difficulties in the area of
the ack messages listserv sends out confirming subscription requests.
Since receiving text messages often costs cell phone customers
additional money, we figure this is a necessary function to prevent
someone using our system to text bomb someone's phone bill.
 
Which makes me think, even if the system does send out confirmation
requests, I can use that in itself to attack someone I don't like by
issuing multiple subscription requests - can't I?
 
any thoughts on this?
 
//Signed//
 
Benjamin Everist, Contr, 377 MSG/CEMI
Computer Systems Analyst