Re: Voicemail without a call

AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:

On 3/28/25 9:33 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:

Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> wrote:

On 2025-03-28, Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

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  Hmm? Strange! Not that I get that many SMS messages for 2SV or
information, but the ones I get, always have a 'name' - for example an
airline - or a telephone number.
>
  Perhaps this no-name problem is US-specific? (I am in The
Netherlands.)

 
My experience is same as yours - I always get a number - or if contacts
the name). I'm in UK.

>
But, as implied, I also get names for some/most organizations which
are not in my Contacts on the phone. For example an airline (KLM) and
many, many others.

 

Of course many of those may be in *a* contact list (mainly in the
(Mozilla Thunderbird) address book on my laptop), but in not the one on
my phone. Anyway, the other contact list is a email contact list,
without phone numbers.

 
The contact list on my phone is the same SYNCED contact list that's on my
 laptop (Chromebook), my Chrome/Android/Fire tablet toys, and can be
 modified on any one of them. And of course that includes emails. Stuff is
 so much easier and less complicated since I became
 Windowless/Thunderbirdless... ;-)

  Yes, I'm aware that many people sync their contact lists, that's why I
specifically mentioned that I don't, because that's relevant in this
context (of SMS messages having sender names instead of numbers).

  My phone contacts are probably synced by my Google Account, but as I
don't use a Google email program on my laptop, there's no way my phone
can tie the sender of an SMS message to an e-mail-only contact on my
laptop. Even Google can't do the impossible! :-)

 
 

 So these senders have ways to send their name instead of their number.
>

  But indeed, also for our pharmacy, it's a number, but it's always the
same number, so no problem. If I could be bothered, I could put the
number in my Contacts list. Problem solved.
>
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