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by kanisae 1319 days ago
I owned MMS platform for a carrier back in the day. Everything about it was janky. "Hey let's emulate SMTP commands but over HTTP and then try to track all the different models of phones to transcribe images so they can kinda sorta interopate"

Thenb you got to watch the huge queue build up every Christmas morning and New Years as the inter carrier brokers got backed up hours. All in all, not my favorite carrier app to manage.

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Heh, thank you for that perspective, really interesting to see that it did not only fail from completely off the charts expectations based on extrapolating from the SMS outlier.