Two days ago, I conducted an experiment and found out that the "Post to E-Mail" address for the Buckeye Trail Association's Facebook group actually worked after all. That got me excited, so I attempted to post to it using my SMS Gateway (writing a text message to an e-mail address) and it wouldn't go.
I realized that Facebook wasn't able to associate my cell phone's email address with my profile in order to post, so I attempted to add it to my profile. Well, it required a confirmation and the number it sent was cut off because of the 160 character limitation of a text message and I couldn't do it. So, I sent a message from the gateway to my Gmail account. In there, I found the message at attempted to set it so that it automatically forwards to the BTA's Fb group Post to Email address, but setting up the forwarding addresses also needed a confirmation that was cut off.
So yesterday I got smart. And set up a forwarding e-mail address on OTHR's domain (which didn't need to send a confirmation). I strung it all together and what'da know... it doesn't work. Facebook and blogger both have their own apps and SMS text message submission methods. But they only work for your own blog or profile. You can't use an SMS text message to post to the Buckeye Trail's Fb group.
If hikers could, the advantage is it could be used as an "electronic trail register" in place of areas where we don't have physical boxes. And the system would work as long as the hiker on the end had at least roaming cellular signal. I'm attempting to determine if it can be done using a web page guestbook.
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