[Rtcomm] [Rtcomm] [Bug 5409] Cannot send empty SMS

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https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5409


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------- Comment #10 from lennart at poettering.net  2009-11-14 01:28 GMT+3 -------
(In reply to comment #7)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > 
> > Uh? WONTFIX? Why's that? How am I supposed to send an empty SMS?
> > 
> It's unfortunate, but it's even bigger problem if we enable it in n900. Because
> of the way conversations are presented, you can literally send empty message
> accidentally a lot of time. You open the conversation with the person, and you
> click "send" repeatedly. How many empty smses do you think your friend on the
> other side should get :).

That's easy to fix. Just do what most modern mailers to these days if you send
a mail with an empty subject: just ask the user. Popup a little box "Hey, you
just tried to send an empty SMS! Are you sure you want to do that?". There's
not much that could be simpler than this.

> Anyways, it looks like your service's bot in that specific case seems
> unreasonable to error out on non-empty sms. It could easily just ignore the
> content. But working around for just that in n900 would be even more
> unreasonable IMO.

Come on. It is a simple fact that various mobile providers have bots that react
on empty SMS. I have that here at O2 Germany, and kimitake had it with T-Mobile
in the US. If you don't allow empty SMS to be sent then you make the N900
incompatible with these mobile networks. The n900 is not even released yet and
this problem became visible on two big networks, you can be sure its going to
be more than that as soon as the device is released...


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