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SMS Bit Bucket: 'Null' Account Hit with Wayward Text Messages

Paul F. Roberts writes on eWeek:

Have you ever hit "Send" on a text message on your mobile phone before addressing it? Ever wondered where all those lost SMS text messages go? If so, you might want to speak with Stan Bubrouski, whose cell phone has been channeling wayward text messages from across the country for years.

Bubrouski, a computer science major at Northeastern University in Boston, is the proud owner of 'Null@vtext.com,' an account on the popular Verizon text messaging service that allows Internet users to send e-mail and IM messages directly to his cell phone as SMS text messages.

Bubrouski said he was just being clever when he signed up for a Verizon vText account with the user name 'null,' after his parents bought him his first mobile phone during his freshman year at Northeastern, in 2001.

"I've been paying for it ever since," Bubrouski told eWEEK.

posted by Fergie @ 2/27/2006 05:07:00 PM