This was one of those "it's a 3-day weekend... I wonder if I can build something and learn something."<p>I decided to cobble something together that permits anonymous texting. It's certainly not perfect, but I thought it was worth showing off to the HN crowd.<p>$35 for a domain name (sigh, I used godaddy for a Southern Georgia .gs domain; namecheap couldn't help me. Sorry guys). An old server, ubuntu Server edition, Python, Postfix, Sqlite, and little bit of code, a free blogger "website", and it all pretty much works.<p>What do you think?<p>PS I'm happy to post a follow-up with all the gory details.
1. Congratulations on the extremely sane privacy policy. Easily understood. Practical.<p>2. <a href="http://txt.gs" rel="nofollow">http://txt.gs</a> doesn't resolve.<p>3. There have been times I wanted to send text messages without exposing my phone number. Benign reasons. This could be a good solution for me. (I carry two phones and want to text someone from the "other" phone which of course I don't have with me and I don't want that person to know the phone number of the phone I have with me.) (So when I say "I carry two phones" I of course mean I constantly forget to carry two phones.)