Err really? I’d like to make some sort of bet on this—how many phone numbers you can receive texts from verses how many email addresses I can receive texts from by some deadline. Interested? You wouldn’t have to actually receive on them all of course, we’ll both use sampling to check.
You are, of course, correct. There’d be a bit of a delay—I was thinking of different email providers, not creating lots on one domain. And SIMs are sorta slow to turn over. But accumulating a pile of phone numbers for trolling would not be hard.
The “different email providers” thing is an interesting caveat, but how are you proposing to make use of that caveat in software? It’s not that it’s impossible on the face of it, but any software that wanted to make use of it would AFAICT have to have a painstakingly hand-crafted database of domain rules, so that you accept lots of gmail.com addresses but not lots of ciphergoth.org addresses.
Err really? I’d like to make some sort of bet on this—how many phone numbers you can receive texts from verses how many email addresses I can receive texts from by some deadline. Interested? You wouldn’t have to actually receive on them all of course, we’ll both use sampling to check.
You are, of course, correct. There’d be a bit of a delay—I was thinking of different email providers, not creating lots on one domain. And SIMs are sorta slow to turn over. But accumulating a pile of phone numbers for trolling would not be hard.
“A pile”, sure, but not millions.
The “different email providers” thing is an interesting caveat, but how are you proposing to make use of that caveat in software? It’s not that it’s impossible on the face of it, but any software that wanted to make use of it would AFAICT have to have a painstakingly hand-crafted database of domain rules, so that you accept lots of gmail.com addresses but not lots of ciphergoth.org addresses.