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Want a "group" SMS where recipients can't reply to other recipients. (A kind of BCC?)

My phone: DROID 4 / (verizon wireless) / Running Android (GB 2.3.6)

I want to SMS a group of people, but don't want any of them to know of the others. I can't seem to find an app that will generate multiple single-SMS texts.

I can't have any recipient respond to the others.

I can't have any recipient know who the others are.

I don't even want any recipient to know that there *are* others.

Any ideas? The tech support says "nope, can't be done unless you find an app that can do that." Yeah, ok. Now what?

Thanks!!!!

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AZSALUKI

"multiple single" is an oxymoron. what you want to do is send a bunch of individual texts, so do just that. no app that i'm aware of can do it. why don't you just construct one text and copy the text. then paste it, one at a time in a new text to each person?

tgm10241

English grammar critique in a technology forum? No,"multiple single-SMS texts" is not an oxymoron. You can ask for "multiple pairs" of something, or "multiple groups of 10". "Multiple single-SMS texts" is precisely as you also describe----"a bunch of individual texts", which shows that you knew what I wanted: not multiple SMS texts interpreted by the carrier as a single group chat of some kind.

Yes, I can do this by hand one at a time, but some of my texts need to go out to 30 individuals. Not a viable solution.

AZSALUKI

i was just kidding with the oxymoron thing. it doesn't seem like it would take very much time though just to paste the same text in to 30 individual SMS messages. it does seem like one of the SMS apps should be able to do this though?

tgm10241

Sorry, I react far too quickly to this kind of thing----I've just been through a few too many wars on USENET with people being pedantic over unbelievably trivial @#$%. I apologize.

No, that takes a long time to do. Clicking through individual txt creations? Besides, this is something to become semi routine.

Yeah, you'd think this would be a slam-dunk option out there, but I can't seem to find it. I did find a post who had the same incredulous attitude that I have: "Am I really the only one bothered by this?" A couple others I've seen want this ability, but somehow an SMS "BCC:" approach just doesn't seem of interest to enough people to warrant an app.

Either that or I'm so hopped on caffeine that my multitude of searches actually did find one and I mistook it for an angry birds variant. At this point, I'm not quite sure. I'm only dimly aware I'm even typing...

SuzyQ

Try this:

You can do this with standard text messages (SMS) by going to message settings and then to Thread group conversations and turn it off. This works perfectly for standard text messages as it will send a seperate message to each individual contact you selected when chosing multiple contacts.

From what I read, though, it DOESN'T work with MMS.

tgm10241

Curious. I'm begining to wonder about all of this. There's something that I'm missing.

In the old days of my various flip phones (with verizon), whenever I'd exceed the 160 characters, it'd continue on automatically to 2/7 (2nd of 7), all the way up to 7/7 at which point it was done. Did this send things out under the MMS standard to extend the limit, or did it send 7 individual messages and then rejoin them?

If it already knew how to extend the SMS message 7 times, seamlessly, then wouldn't that work now even with group threading turned off?

SuzyQ

If I get carried away with my texting (on a BB) it does just create up to 7 messages, then sends them one right after the other, and I also receive multiple texts if someone sends me a longer message.

have yo tried the "threading off" option to send BCC copies?

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