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I might need to switch my phone provider. As much as I've loved having all my messages delivered via #XMPP, jmp.chat's upstream providers decency filter is killing me. I constantly get text messages rejected for using swear words. If you ask they insist that all phone providers do this, but if I copy the same message over to my other provider it sends fine.
Are there any other good VoIP providers (not necessarily with XMPP compatibility, but that would be great) that aren't puritanical?
To be clear: this is *not* jmp.chat's fault. They're great. It's their upstream SMS provider.
@sam A decency filter sounds very American. Apart from perceived hypocrisy around disallowing bad words, but not bad <inject your favorite pet peeve here>, I'm not even sure if that would be allowable in Europe, given things like net neutrality. Providers aren't supposed to peeking in your messages in the first place.
@guusdk oh yah, in any sensible place this would be illegal (and it used to be here back when net neutrality was a thing). *sigh*
@sam Consider voip.ms . You can't directly use XMPP but they do have a rather decent REST/JSON API; if you know what you are doing, you can send and receive text message via the command line.
@ClearDental I'll take a look; thanks!
@sam This behaviour is certainly stupid, but JMP has other routes which don't have this weird policy. Have you investigated those? The JMP support team can move your number across if you ask them.
@mattj I had no idea they were doing this now, but they actually reached out earlier and mentioned it; thanks! I'm going to see if switching helps. I'd hate to go back to regular SMS, I love being able to use Conversations for it (although I go back and forth because their group texting is pretty much unusable still, but that's less of an issue than the weird spam filter thing that catches so many of my messages)
@sam both VOIP? I was under the impression the filter only applied to commercial SMS gateways.
(That said, almost no one sends me SMS anymore)
@terinjokes yah, it's not the actual voip gateway, it's their upstream commercial SMS provider, I think. Except I don't really know how it works or if they're just overzealous or what, because T-Mobile sends the same texts just fine.
They (jmp.chat) reached out after seeing my post and said they have alternative routes available now, so I may try one of those and hopefully they're less terrible.
@sam this isn't what you're asking , but have you tried some really creative swearing?
@FourT4 Or even really creative discussions of cooking! (the other day I said something about eating something with mushrooms and it blocked it… similarly I said something about planting something in a pot, which was blocked. It thinks literally every random thing is a drug reference, which apparently I'm not even allowed to talk about).