Thinking out LoudI have occasionally seen message that say
Reply STOP to quit receiving these messages
or something to that effect and as much as I hate to admit
assumed it was a service provided by the message originator, and replying STOP would result in my name being removed from the originators mailing list. Indeed, a DuckDuckGo search for "reply stop to sms" turns up two different groups of hits
- warnings against replying to those messages because it identifies your number as "alive" and sms capable.
- bulk messaging firms advertising the recognition of a STOP reply as a feature of their service. This has been subjected to legal action.
Plantsower's receiving the notification with messages she sent to herself would appear to indicate that somehow a third party, perhaps her telephone company, a
smart router, or even Messages has managed to get in on the act. With email the message headers provide a mechanism for tracking the various servers a message has passed through and perhaps provide a trail of crumbs, But there is no such mechanism in SMS or Messages. Unfortunately intermittent issues such as this are notoriously hard to trace and require a lot of patience to resolve.
At this point the best I can offer are questions, and a request:
- Question: Was the text sent to an email address or telephone number?
- Question: Is that email address or telephone number associated with your Apple ID?
- Request: can you capture a screenshot the next time the message appears[/b] and post it so we can see it?