Question regarding text forwarding to groups.

I've started out last year getting myself an iPod Touch, which I was SO happy with that I then this summer went for the iPhone 3GS and just recently have gotten a hold on the new iPhone 4
I love the design, the innovation and the way things work and look and feel.
However there is one thing I'm really missing when it comes to what I consider basic phone functions, and that's that ability to send and forward text messages to groups of people.
Personally I use it for sending out jokes and cute texts to friends and family, and needless to say it's very very timeconsuming to add them all every time I want to forward a text I get or write one of my own to the 20 to 30+ people.
I'm thinking there are loads of other uses, both personal and business uses that this could have for other people as well, and my older Nokia phones have been able to do this quite easy and I'm wondering why it's not in the iOS software at all?!
I've searched the App Store and the internet for a solution to this because frankly at first I was SURE the phone was able to do it, and that I just hadn't figured out how to yet. But apparently from reading forums and helpsites that focus on the iPhone, other people around the globe have the same desire as me and have found it not possible with the iPhone.
There are a few apps that make group texting availeble but my problem is that most of the time I need to be able to forward the ones I get to a group, and that's apparently NOT possible with those apps
So my question IS, has anyone else here the same need? And has anyone found a solution or know if Apple plan to implement it at some point?
Because with all it's features shouldn't the iPhone above all else be easy to use? Make our everyday life less of a hassle? After all it IS a smartphone is it not? PHONE being the capital word here, texting I think, is a big essential part of what a mobile device should be able to do isn't it?!
Any way I hope someone here has a solution.
Thanks!
Message was edited by: wenneberg

Hi,
Regarding CONTENT-TYPE: TEXT/HTM message, I have
following questions:
1. Is there any API to parse the content, means
removing html tags?There are no Apis. We do have a piece of code to do that. If you want it please send an email to [email protected]
2. Giving an pure text, how to re-construct an html
type message?You can't.
3. What's advantege of text/html type compared with
text/plain? How popular text/html type is supported?
All that you can do with HTML can be done with HTML mails, namely making things 'Bold' ,'Italics', 'Underline' ....... I hope you get it. HTML mails are must. You have to support it if you plan to build a mail client.
cheers
Projyal
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set destFolder to "zome's Public Folder:Drop Box:"
set src to (sourceFolder as alias)'s POSIX Path's text 1 thru -2
set dst to (destFolder as alias)'s POSIX Path's text 1 thru -2
set sh to "cp -pR " & quoted form of src & " " & quoted form of dst
do shell script (sh & " 2>>~/Desktop/cop2dropError.txt")
end cop2drop
--END OF SCRIPT2a
--SCRIPT3a - using ditto(1)
cop2drop("Macintosh HD:Users:home:Documents")
on cop2drop(sourceFolder)
set destFolder to "zome's Public Folder:Drop Box:"
set src to (sourceFolder as alias)'s POSIX Path's text 1 thru -2
set dst to (destFolder as alias)'s POSIX Path's text 1 thru -2
set sh to "src=" & quoted form of src & ";dst=" & quoted form of dst & ¬
";ditto "${src}" "${dst}/${src##*/}""
do shell script (sh & " 2>>~/Desktop/cop2dropError.txt")
end cop2drop
--END OF SCRIPT3a
Good luck,
H
Message was edited by: Hiroto (fixed typo)

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