is there a real difference between texting and e-mailing?
by newbiesforever from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5KFWZ)
A few years ago, I learned the trick to send an e-mail to someone's phone as a text message. (You just have to know the e-mail domain used by the phone service provider, of course.) I've been using this to text people from my computer while waiting for my new phone to arrive. Today it occurred to me to wonder: based on this knowledge, is there any real difference between a text message and an e-mail? Since a mobile phone is just a computer in a small shell communicating with (probably) another small computer. What I'm getting at is, do texting and e-mail only look different?
