Comments on: Text Spam: Mobile Marketing Mindlessness http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/08/text_spam_mobil.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:09:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andy http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/08/text_spam_mobil.html/comment-page-1#comment-83728 Andy Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:48:01 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.co.uk/2006/08/text_spam_mobile_marketing_mindlessness.html#comment-83728 I have the exact same suspicious. I too activated a free orange.net email address with sms email alerts. I was really hoping to use this email purely for important emails that need to be dealt with. All I've had is an average 10 spam emails/txts at all hours of the day and night. I'm going to have to use a white list on this account because otherwise the account is completely useless. I'm starting to think that Orange are just a complete joke of a network. I have the exact same suspicious. I too activated a free orange.net email address with sms email alerts. I was really hoping to use this email purely for important emails that need to be dealt with. All I’ve had is an average 10 spam emails/txts at all hours of the day and night. I’m going to have to use a white list on this account because otherwise the account is completely useless.

I’m starting to think that Orange are just a complete joke of a network.

]]> By: Dan Lane http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/08/text_spam_mobil.html/comment-page-1#comment-333 Dan Lane Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:06:42 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.co.uk/2006/08/text_spam_mobile_marketing_mindlessness.html#comment-333 I don't want to start sounding like a perpetual Orange basher (umm) but... Orange give a free e-mail -> SMS gateway to all subscribers (even PAYG). You can sign up at orange.net for a username@orange.net address and have e-mail notifications sent to your phone by SMS for free... but I wouldn't bother. You see, somehow (I have a few theories how) after setting up a brand new orange.net username my orange.net account (and by proxy, my SMS inbox) was flooded with spam. Orange offer no apparent spam protection and it really is a little fishy that so much spam appears so soon after the creation of a brand new account (again, multiple theories for how this happens). I don’t want to start sounding like a perpetual Orange basher (umm) but…

Orange give a free e-mail -> SMS gateway to all subscribers (even PAYG).

You can sign up at orange.net for a username@orange.net address and have e-mail notifications sent to your phone by SMS for free… but I wouldn’t bother.

You see, somehow (I have a few theories how) after setting up a brand new orange.net username my orange.net account (and by proxy, my SMS inbox) was flooded with spam.

Orange offer no apparent spam protection and it really is a little fishy that so much spam appears so soon after the creation of a brand new account (again, multiple theories for how this happens).

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