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Cupcake 14481 replied on August 08, 2008 21:24 to the problem "Sandy's Mobile Phone Number" in I want Sandy:

I believe this happens because sandy is actually sending an email to an address at ATT which ATT then passes through an sms gateway.. from sandy's point of view, it's just an email address.. which gets sent to your phone via sms by ATT. ATT simply assigns it an sequential number, since there isn't really a "from" phone number. (The message is coming from an email address.. not a phone number... ) many (but not all) service providers do it this way...

Elizabeth Wiley replied on June 26, 2008 21:48 to the problem "Sandy's Mobile Phone Number" in I want Sandy:

Has any progress been made with this? I'm using an iphone too and I really want the notifications coming into my text messages because I respond to text messages on an individual basis where I don't automatically respond to each received email. And with all the problems I've read here with Twitter, I'm very hesitant to commit myself to using that service as an intermediary between myself and Sandy.

Has this been fixed?

lavardera replied on February 15, 2008 05:50 to the problem "Sandy's Mobile Phone Number" in I want Sandy:

Yes - which I am sure is the same thing that Sandy is doing. For whatever reason ATT handles these emails in a manner that we get this ascending number. I don't expect ATT will change their practice for the few Sandy users, but Sandy can alter the way an SMS is sent and perhaps that means it does not originate as an email but as a legitimate SMS. In any case I think the issue lands back with Sandy to resolve or speak to ATT about it.

WillisWasabi replied on February 15, 2008 03:30 to the problem "Sandy's Mobile Phone Number" in I want Sandy:

No, we don't have an SMS gateway and I don't have the "Enterprise Messaging" or whatever the AT&T package is that allows you to send messages via TAP. I'm simply sending email to <mobilenumber>@txt.att.net. Likewise, on my personal VZW cell, I have sent to <mobilenumber>@vtext.com.</mobilenumber></mobilenumber>

lavardera replied on February 15, 2008 01:51 to the problem "Sandy's Mobile Phone Number" in I want Sandy:

so your server notifications are not actually coming from a phone number then? What is your server sending - an email? And how is that email addressed to your cell phone?

WillisWasabi replied on February 14, 2008 22:38 to the problem "Sandy's Mobile Phone Number" in I want Sandy:

I also use my AT&T cell for server notification emails. The real email sender never changes, but I get the same results: The SMS sender is a number that increases by 1 each time. Sending to my Verizon cell just reports the email sender.

lavardera replied on February 14, 2008 18:21 to the problem "Sandy's Mobile Phone Number" in I want Sandy:

I saw your comments above, but it is not consistent with my experience. Other users SMS messages to me all land neatly in the same thread. ATT does not seem to alter their messages to create different IDs that land in separate threads. What is different about Sandy's SMS messages that would cause ATT to treat them differently, and if so can Sandy change them so ATT does not. I don't see how this lies with ATT alone.

WillisWasabi replied on February 14, 2008 18:01 to the problem "Sandy's Mobile Phone Number" in I want Sandy:

In my tests over 2 mobile providers (Verizon and AT&T), this has nothing to do with Iwantsandy.com, and everything to do with the provider. If you'd like this to change, you would need to change cell providers.

lavardera replied on February 14, 2008 16:05 to the problem "Sandy's Mobile Phone Number" in I want Sandy:

I have this same problem. Sandy's phone number increases by one digit with each reminder. What would be ideal would be if Sandy's phone number stayed the same - then I would have an SMS thread with all her reminders. When they get stale I can delete the thread and a new one will start with the next reminder.

Also a single phone number can be put into the address book, then my iPhone will identify Sandy by name instead of by a meaningless number.

Email reminders are not a replacement for SMS. The SMS causes my phone to chime which is an active reminder. Email, I have to check for to receive a reminder - defeats the purpose.

ekivemark replied on January 31, 2008 13:17 to the idea "Could we get OpenID support?" in I want Sandy:

I agree - one less userid/password combination to remember is a good thing.

ekivemark marked one of Russ' replies in I want Sandy as useful. Russ replied to the question "can we send reminders to sandy via sms?".

ekivemark marked one of Larry Kollar's replies in I want Sandy as useful. Larry Kollar replied to the question "SMS to Sandy?".

ekivemark replied on January 28, 2008 02:30 to the problem "Sandy's Mobile Phone Number" in I want Sandy:

If you are using an iPhone you might find it easier to use email. You could setup a free email account just for iwantsandy.

Alternatively how about using twitter and following S (IwantSandy) on Twitter? twitter has a fixed sms number 40404.

ekivemark replied on January 26, 2008 16:24 to the question "create reminder from cell phone" in I want Sandy:

You can if you use twitter. Twiite rin Us has short code 40404.

Try "D S R try to text me at 3pm today" to 40404

Wayne, an employee of Spock, replied on December 30, 2007 09:58 to the question "What is the "sig=" value in the Spock API. It doesn't appear to be documented in the API docs." in Spock:

You need to quote the URL before passing it to curl. For example, here's your command with double-quotes around the URL:

curl "http://www.spock.com/api/1/person.xml?api_key=MyAPIKeyGoesinHere&blurb=1&gender=1&id=sam%2Cwayne&names=3&pictures=3&picture_sizes=small_width&location=1&websites=3&tags=10"

If you don't have the quotes, your shell rather than curl processes the ampersand characters (&) so it runs 9 different commands instead of 1. That's why you're seeing the [2], [3], [4], ... [9].

The first command that gets run ends up being:
curl http://www.spock.com/api/1/person.xml...
and Spock is then understandably confused since it doesn't see an "id" parameter so it gives you the "No ID specified" error.

Long story short, use double-quotes when you use URLs at the command line. :) Hope that helps!

ekivemark replied on December 29, 2007 23:53 to the question "What is the "sig=" value in the Spock API. It doesn't appear to be documented in the API docs." in Spock:

Thanks for the help. I am obviously still doing something wrong. Here is the output from curl

curl http://www.spock.com/api/1/person.xml...

curl http://www.spock.com/api/1/person.xml...
[2] Done blurb=1
[3] Done gender=1
[4] Done id=sam%2Cwayne
[5] Done names=3
[6] Done pictures=3
[7] Done picture_sizes=small_width
[8] Done location=1
[9] Done websites=3
My-Computer:~ ComputerUser$ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<response>
<error>No ID specified.</error>
</response>

Yes - my api key is working. I replaced it here for security reasons. The call count keeps getting incremented.
Any suggestions on problems with the call?

Maia, an employee of Spock, replied on December 28, 2007 05:47 to the question "What is the "sig=" value in the Spock API. It doesn't appear to be documented in the API docs." in Spock:

The sig value is only used in the example API call. You don't need to include it when you use the API.

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ekivemark asked a question in Spock on December 28, 2007 04:48:

What is the "sig=" value in the Spock API. It doesn't appear to be documented in the API docs.

There is a sig= value in the API call but it does not appear to be documented. How do you determine that value?