Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?
On Tuesday, August 16, 2016 10:47:35 AM Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> I'm looking for a decentralized instant message system (e.g. XMPP, SIP,
> >> ...) where I can be sure that I receive all messages, even if I'm not
> >> connected when the message is sent [ Obviously, I'll only receive them
> >> when I'm back online. ]
> >
> > I believe that's called "electronic mail" or "email".
>
> There's that, and there are SMS messages as well, indeed.
> But email is a lot more heavyweight and drowned in spam (e.g. most
> people don't get notified right away when they receive an email
> message), and SMS is basically limited to cell-phone only (you can find
> services that let you send SMS messages from something like a SIP
> account, but I haven't found any corresponding service for the
> reception of SMS messages, except some that just drop the SMS message
> if the SIP delivery cannot be performed because you're not connected).
Google Voice can send and receive text messages (to and from cell phones or
other google voice users)--iiuc, those are SMS messages. Currently I don't
have anything set up to notify me, but I asume (I know) that can be done
within a web browser.
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