{"id":820,"date":"2008-05-22T05:51:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T10:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=820"},"modified":"2008-05-22T05:51:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T10:51:46","slug":"maxis-on-the-anti-sms-spam-bandwagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/22\/maxis-on-the-anti-sms-spam-bandwagon","title":{"rendered":"Maxis on the anti-SMS-spam bandwagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was reported recently that Maxis (my current mobile provider of choice), will offer an <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2008\/5\/8\/nation\/21181939&amp;sec=nation\">anti-spam service for cellphones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once you get MessagePlus, which costs RM1 per month, you can start blocking spam. Where do I get most of my spam from? Maxis information services!<\/p>\n<p>So, while this magical service is the first in the world, is this just because Malaysia lacks an extension to the Do Not Call Register?<\/p>\n<p>MessagePlus also includes an auto-reply feature for SMS messages. Think of this like vacation mail, in traditional e-mail. Vacation mail that costs money &#8211; you&#8217;re charged on a per SMS basis, ranging from between 5-15 sen per message.<\/p>\n<p>It seems Maxis has a new business development manager, Nikolai Dobberstein. And the idea of sending spam, and charging folk to stop receiving the spam, seems like its just gold! Excellent idea for business development, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I&#8217;ll live with the spam. And when mobile number portability shows up (find link), I might move to another sensible provider.<\/p>\n<p>A useful statistic? Malaysia&#8217;s SMS use is ranked at sixth in the world, for total SMS volume.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was reported recently that Maxis (my current mobile provider of choice), will offer an anti-spam service for cellphones. Once you get MessagePlus, which costs RM1 per month, you can start blocking spam. Where do I get most of my spam from? Maxis information services! So, while this magical service is the first in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[139,137,100,138,136],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-business-development","tag-malaysia","tag-maxis","tag-sms","tag-spam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-de","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}