[AusNOG] Class-0 messages not delivering inside Optus network

Deon someguyinmelbourne at gmail.com
Sun Nov 24 23:14:42 EST 2013


On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:51 PM, Dobbins, Roland <rdobbins at arbor.net>
 wrote:

>
> One question I have though - don't a lot of SMS spammers use Class-0?
>  Might it be an anti-SMS spam mechanism?
>

Unfortunately I have seen a bit of class-0 spam lately, but at the same
time I've seen a bit of regular SMS spam lately as well.. I guess spammers
will use any platform these days. But you're right, it could be some sort
of new anti-abuse mechanism


>
> And out of curiosity, why does your app use Class-0 messages?  For myself,
> I find them to be really annoying, unless they're carrying critical
> information from the carrier I'm using.
>

Yeah, I can't remember the initial reason - I think it was something to do
with because some users had frequent updates, it saved them saving useless
messages in their inbox, plus it looked sightly more 'professional' that it
wasn't just a regular SMS from a mobile phone. iOS handled them really
well, Android looks a little more alarming starting the notification with
'CLASS 0 MESSAGE'. I understand how ridiculous that saving space line
sounds with the size of today's inboxes, heh.



On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Tom Storey <tom at snnap.net> wrote:

> Wouldnt you be better off contacting the API provider so they can
> start looking in to things from their side? Surely they would be able
> to start escalating up the chain.


Yeah, I spoke to them briefly late last week, but they couldn't give me
much... might try them again as they should have some contacts on their
end, as you say.




Cheers,
Deon.
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