[asterisk-users] Astricon people please post the announcement

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- "Tzafrir Cohen" <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com> wrote:
> There are some awkward methods for sending some text messages oversome
> channels (SMS in european POTS, SIMPLE and simpler texxt messages in
> SIP, XMMP for Jingle, and well, probably nothing in IAX. Bristuff ads
> even a few more bits there).
> 
> But do we actually care routing those messages from one place to
> another?
> 
> This is a major limitation of Asterisk for me. Text messages require
> much lower a bandwith and a text connection is much easier to setup.
> Hence it can work even when a voip connection is lousy. 

The specific thing here (that makes handling text messages within the 
framework of the more complicated protocol attractive) is *addressibility*.

If you already have a path to someone, why should you be forced to *discover* 
another path to them for some other, simpler protocol?

Cheers,
-- jra
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