Text Messaging Service

[Unimog Bob]

I know not many are using this, but just got this email.

As you might have seen in the news, starting on October 1st T-Mobile will institute an additional charge for each text message sent by businesses such as TextMarks. We are working with other companies in the text messaging industry to try to convince T-Mobile to revert this charge, but we don't know if we will succeed. This additional fee is greater than the revenues that can be generated by placing ads in the text messages, so, unfortunately, we will be forced to stop delivering free ad-supported messages to T-Mobile subscribers unless this situation is resolved. We will continue to deliver ad-supported text messages to subscribers of Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and other wireless carriers.

This will only impact our free, ad-supported accounts. Paid accounts will continue to deliver to T-mobile customers, with no additional charges passed on to our customers.

If you have a free account but would like to continue to deliver messages to your T-Mobile subscribers, you may upgrade to a paid account, available at www.TextMarks.com. In an attempt to make the paid service affordable to everyone we are offering our customers who are affected by this a discount of 50% off our regular prices*. To take advantage of this discount please use the code TRANSITION.

Delivery of free ad-supported text messages to T-Mobile subscribers are scheduled to stop as of October 6th, 2010. We apologize for this situation but it is entirely outside our control. We will keep you posted on any developments or changes.

Regards,
Chris Neumann & the TextMarks Team
tmsupport@textmarks.com

Due to the confusion over whether the SW abbreviation means either a SW wind direction or the Skyway location would like to suggest that for Windy posts we use SKW for the Skyway NE and SSKW for the Skyway South. We would continue to use SW to indicate a Southwest wind direction.....

Regards,
Tim

[Unimog Bob]

Now you are just being unreasonable,Tim.

Does it even matter? ... never going to ever get wind again anyway.
At least it feels that way now, doesn't it?!

Seriously though, sounds reasonable. I will try to write it out like this-

8:35 @SKW. Winds are SW @ 2.3 knots gusting to 3. Skies clear. 4 kites pumped up and waiting. 2 kiters praying, 1 crying, 1 smoking crack.