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Originally posted by cRuNcHeR
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Originally posted by matty
It does the same thing as sending 11111111111@pci.rogers.com it sends an email-to-sms message where you need to reply to read the message...
Nothing new
Um are you talking about Text4free.. Because if so; You don't need to reply to read the message.
I've used it for some time now and it's worked great. Hope someone is willing to make the script for Messenger Plus 
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Yes, he is talking about the Text4Free Service and he IS correct.
The Text4Free service does not have its own service to send SMS. It (ab)uses other online services! And depending on the provider you send the SMS to, the recepient must reply to a recieved SMS in order to read your SMS. He either need to reply to the SMS or go to an online page (link given in the SMS he recieves). Also, depending on the provider it is the recepient who pays for those SMS.
For example, if someone uses Text4Free to send a SMS to me, I first must reply to the SMS send by the online service used by the Text4Free service and they will charge me €2 or £1 + price for an sms for it!!!!!!! (I can send like 100 SMS for that amount of money) Not to mention that they will now have my number and will send advertisement from time to time according to their conditions & terms of use.
(they = not Text4Free, but that other online service it uses*)
So, it is not much different than other online SMS services, except that it doesn't send the SMS itself but uses other online SMS services to do the job. As such, the Text4Free service does NOT work 100% all the time as it highly depends on the availability of the uses online services.
If you are planning to use this service to send a SMS to your own phone because you can't find any other online service, you could simply look at the source of the Text4Free form (the inline frame to be more exact) to find out what exact online service it uses for your provider/country and use that online service directly. Although that might not always work for free either as shown by my example above.
* And for UK users it is even worse if you use that service, they need to pay £5 to read your SMS!!!!!
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