http://scripts.mit.edu/~birge/blog/text-messages-cost-more-than-postcards/ Monkey #121643810 reporting for duty... Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:43:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://scripts.mit.edu/~birge/blog/text-messages-cost-more-than-postcards/comment-page-1/#comment-2879 Jonathan Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:42:57 +0000 http://scripts.mit.edu/~birge/blog/?p=464#comment-2879 I have text messages blocked, too. I feel bad if people try to send me text messages, because I don't know what happens or if they get charged for it. Given that phones now have push e-mail, there's really no reason for text messages. You know, I can't think of any other service that is so crass as to make you buy things without asking. Oh, wait, I can think of two: Government and The Columbia Records CD of the Month Club. Thanks for the setup, Mere. I have text messages blocked, too. I feel bad if people try to send me text messages, because I don’t know what happens or if they get charged for it. Given that phones now have push e-mail, there’s really no reason for text messages. You know, I can’t think of any other service that is so crass as to make you buy things without asking. Oh, wait, I can think of two: Government and The Columbia Records CD of the Month Club. Thanks for the setup, Mere.

]]> http://scripts.mit.edu/~birge/blog/text-messages-cost-more-than-postcards/comment-page-1/#comment-2876 Mere Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:01:25 +0000 http://scripts.mit.edu/~birge/blog/?p=464#comment-2876 Sick, sick, sick. When I noticed that they'd started charging $0.20 (which they didn't apparently need to warn me about) I called and had them block text on my phone. I guess it's obnoxious for those who have a little morsel they don't want to have to say out loud, or something, but I can't think of any other service in which you don't choose your own spending. (Though I can't wait to hear what you can think of...) Sick, sick, sick. When I noticed that they’d started charging $0.20 (which they didn’t apparently need to warn me about) I called and had them block text on my phone. I guess it’s obnoxious for those who have a little morsel they don’t want to have to say out loud, or something, but I can’t think of any other service in which you don’t choose your own spending. (Though I can’t wait to hear what you can think of…)

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