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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?

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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 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.

SeanO replied on December 15, 2007 17:24 to the problem "Sandy's Mobile Phone Number" in I want Sandy:

I know Facebook does something like this so that it can keep track of each thread. I can see the same use in Sandy.

Say a "Lunch with Mom (10:30)" reminder is sent to your cell phone, and a few minutes later "Buy Christmas lights today" also comes in. The unique numbers allow you to reply to one, or the other, and have Sandy know which one you are referring to. So by replying to the first message at (####-001), it knows that "update tomorrow 1pm" refers to Lunch (having been moved) and not anything to do with Christmas lights. Similarly, it knows "forget" being replied back to the Christmas lights message (####-002) means you have already picked them up and not the the lunch should be forgotten.

WillisWasabi replied on December 15, 2007 15:09 to the problem "Sandy's Mobile Phone Number" in I want Sandy:

I don't know for sure, but I get the same behavior with my work cell on the AT&T network when I get SMS delivered from email. My personal Verizon network cell phone just reports the email address of the sender. Sandy-grams to my personal cell come from the address which I would use send email to Sandy.

I don't think Values of n can do anything about it. It's either AT&T being brain-dead, or maybe a limitation of SMS. Verizon (on CDMA) doesn't really have "SMS", but some sort of mostly compatible text protocol.

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WillisWasabi replied on November 30, 2007 15:10 to the idea "Talk to Sandy quickly using Quicksilver" in I want Sandy:

Ok, I did some research and figured it out. Google led me to this page: http://theappleblog.com/2007/03/14/qu...

The video mentions that "it used to work but stopped in B51 3800". However, the first comment points to the TextMate ranker breaking third pane address lookups. Sure enough, if I use the Default (built-in) ranker, third pane works. I'll live with "Sandy - email item - text" versus "text - email to - Sandy" rather than give up TextMate ranking. There's too much typing involved for me in Default. I'm sure it will be fixed some day with all those smart open source programmers working on it now. :)

Joachim Bengtsson replied on November 27, 2007 08:18 to the idea "Talk to Sandy quickly using Quicksilver" in I want Sandy:

The QS method is very non-verbose. The only notification that it worked will be a swoosh sound when Mail successfully sends the mail.

Hm. I'm on Leopard, and it works. And I'm sending to the Sandy AB card, not directly to the email, and it works. And it was years since I setup my QS configuration, so I don't remember if I had to do something special, but I doubt it.

Sorry, don't really know what's wrong on your side :/

WillisWasabi replied on November 27, 2007 06:04 to the idea "Talk to Sandy quickly using Quicksilver" in I want Sandy:

This doesn't work for me. I don't get an email in my sent folder, and Quicksilver dosen't really let me know anything. I've enabled "Email to... (Send directly)" for both Text and Email addresses. Are there any other Quicksilver options that need to be set for this to work? Could be that I'm on Leopard. If I use an email address in the third pane, it gets sent. This is less than useful since I haven't quite memorized my random Sandy address. :)

Theory, an employee of I want Sandy, replied on November 27, 2007 01:25 to the idea "Talk to Sandy quickly using Quicksilver" in I want Sandy:

And now sandy has learned to ignore dupes in the subject and body of an email.

Thanks for the heads-up!

Best,

David