Signs of the Times
Apr. 28th, 2004 03:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jducoeurMy current PDA is a Treo 300, a fancy Palm-OS cellphone. Generally it's not a half-bad toy -- I have my complaints, but I don't regret buying it.
However, it's the first time I've had a device capable of receiving text messages. That's neat in principle, although not very useful in practice: I've never actually received such a message for real, since my social group mostly uses other mechanisms to communicate. I've never given given out my texting address; indeed, I'm not even sure offhand what it is.
And I'm getting spam on it anyway. Only about once a week currently, but I'm noticing an upward trend.
Grr. I may wind up simply shutting off the text service (assuming I can), since I'm *only* getting spam through it, and don't anticipate using it for anything real in the near future. But it still feels rather like letting the bad guys win...
However, it's the first time I've had a device capable of receiving text messages. That's neat in principle, although not very useful in practice: I've never actually received such a message for real, since my social group mostly uses other mechanisms to communicate. I've never given given out my texting address; indeed, I'm not even sure offhand what it is.
And I'm getting spam on it anyway. Only about once a week currently, but I'm noticing an upward trend.
Grr. I may wind up simply shutting off the text service (assuming I can), since I'm *only* getting spam through it, and don't anticipate using it for anything real in the near future. But it still feels rather like letting the bad guys win...