<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hi all (my first post to the list:))</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Recently at work we needed the ability to send SMS messages from within an application. After a bit of research we found TextAnywhere: <A href="http://ws.textanywhere.net/web/home/default.aspx">http://ws.textanywhere.net/web/home/default.aspx</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">They allow you to send (and I think receive) sms messages using standard soap web service calls. It's free to sign up for a developer account - they give you 20 free messages. After that you can purchase bundles "Pay as you go" style where messages work out at about 7p (£22 for 250 messages).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Might be of some use to you</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cheers</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR style=""></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Pete</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><DIV><DIV>On 14 Dec 2006, at 13:15, James Darling wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Just completely for side little personal projects I'm playing with in my head, does anyone know how I'd go about receiving SMS messages here in the UK that I can then process using Ruby?<DIV>As this is a personal play about, I only have pocket money for this, so the cheapest way would be much appreciated.<DIV>I have found ruby-sms [1], but this seems to only send messages through an interesting bluetooth to real mobile phone setup.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Any ideas/experience?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>[1] <A href="http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-sms/">http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/ruby-sms/</A></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <DIV class="vcard" style="border: solid #555 1px; border-left: none; border-right: none; padding:5px; color: #333; float:left; width:95%;"> <IMG style="float:left; margin-right:4px; padding: 12px;" src=" http://abscond.org/ext/abscondlogo50.gif" alt="photo" class="photo"> <DIV style="float:left; padding:8px;"> <A class="url fn" href="http://absconddesign.com" style="font-size:140%; color:#333">James Darling</A> <DIV class="org">Abscond Design</DIV> <A class="email" href="mailto:james@abscond.org" style="color:#333">james@abscond.org</A> <DIV class="tel">07811407085</DIV> <A class="url" href="aim:goim?screenname=abscond@mac.com" style="color:#333">AIM/iChat</A> </DIV> <DIV class="adr" style="float:left; padding:8px;"> <DIV class="street-address">Rose Cottage<BR> Gwavas Road</DIV> <SPAN class="locality">Newlyn<BR></SPAN> <SPAN class="region">Cornwall<BR></SPAN> <SPAN class="postal-code">TR18 5EG<BR></SPAN> <SPAN class="country-name">UK</SPAN> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV><BR></DIV></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">chat mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:chat@lrug.org">chat@lrug.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org">http://lists.lrug.org/listinfo.cgi/chat-lrug.org</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>--</DIV><DIV>Pete O'Grady</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:pete@peteogrady.com">pete@peteogrady.com</A></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.peteogrady.com">http://www.peteogrady.com</A></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>