Re: all major US carriers received text messages overnight that appear to have been sent around Valentine's Day 2019

[Jim Stapleton <stapletonj () pdx edu>]

It doesn't seem to be simply a matter of backlogged messages finally going
out. My friend replied to the mystery messages received from me and I
thought she was accidentally responding on the wrong thread. Her texts
seemed spontaneous and disjointed which is why I assumed she was on the
wrong thread. When we talked about it, it became clear she thought she was
responding to me and sent me a screenshot of the messages she was replying
to. I keep a copy of every message so I was able to locate the point in
time in the past where this dialog happened and found the 2/14 timestamps.
But here's the thing. She had interacted with me correctly at the time back
on 2/14. The message did not get stuck and undelivered. This was a resend
of a set of completed messages.

On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 12:07 PM Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Nov 2019, Jared Mauch wrote:
> > I run mailing lists.  I’ve had times where I find something stuck in
> > the system and instead of just deleting it, I actually try to make sure
> > it goes out based on the original intent.  This has resulted in me
> > sending out e-mails a year or two later at times.
>
> Ok, you run mailing lists mostly on an amatuer (personal, unpaid) basis.
>
> Every commercial organization delivering customer records should have a
> record retention/archive schedule.  Holding on to customer data longer
> than necessary for business purposes is just increasing your liability
> when something goes wrong.  And it always goes wrong.
>
> Many tech startup companies never think about record retention schedules,
> or their privacy policy says 'indefinitely', which means the lawyer wrote
> something down in the policy but no one really thought about it.
>
> Western Union learned that lesson with telegrams a hundred years ago.
> Tech firms keep re-learning old lessons, the hard way.