I understand that many systems will only try and deliver a message for 72
hours. That will account for some of the percentage.
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Chang" <kench@hotmail.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 4:49 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: 7.5% of US SMS messages lost...
> there are a lot of "understandable" reasons that some messages
> fail to deliver, like invalid or filtered-out messages (even
> you exclude the spams).
>
> as we discussed before, another reason is the handsets aren't
> always reachable, because travel out of coverage, powered off,
> or damaged. these messages don't distribute evenly (only to
> some handsets), so users won't have that bad experience.
[ Excessive quoting removed by moderator ]
Received on Thu Jan 16 22:00:17 2003