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    From Steve Hayes@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, March 03, 2026 07:24:37
    On my 20-year-old Samsung dumb phone it is easy to set up a group to
    send SMS messages to, and it is very easy to resend such a message to
    others.

    Is there any way of doing the same thing on an Android phone?

    I have a sent message I want to resend to the same or other people --
    like a reminder of a regular meeting. On the dumb phone I just mark
    Forward, Add Recipients, and can then send it to a named group.

    Is there any easy way of doing the same thing on an Android phone?


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    Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
    Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
    Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
    E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

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  • From Carlos E.R.@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, March 03, 2026 07:13:27
    On 2026-03-03 06:24, Steve Hayes wrote:
    On my 20-year-old Samsung dumb phone it is easy to set up a group to
    send SMS messages to, and it is very easy to resend such a message to
    others.

    Is there any way of doing the same thing on an Android phone?

    I have a sent message I want to resend to the same or other people --
    like a reminder of a regular meeting. On the dumb phone I just mark
    Forward, Add Recipients, and can then send it to a named group.

    Is there any easy way of doing the same thing on an Android phone?


    Certainly, at least with RCS. You can define a group as such, or just
    resend to several recipients.

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    Cheers, Carlos.
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  • From Jason H@3:633/10 to All on Tuesday, March 03, 2026 23:02:45
    On 03/03/2026 05:24, Steve Hayes wrote:
    On my 20-year-old Samsung dumb phone it is easy to set up a group to
    send SMS messages to, and it is very easy to resend such a message to
    others.

    Is there any way of doing the same thing on an Android phone?

    I have a sent message I want to resend to the same or other people --
    like a reminder of a regular meeting. On the dumb phone I just mark
    Forward, Add Recipients, and can then send it to a named group.

    Is there any easy way of doing the same thing on an Android phone?

    I think you will need all the numbers to be in your contacts, but yes - it's
    possible, but probably quite different to how you do it already.

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  • From Steve Hayes@3:633/10 to All on Wednesday, March 04, 2026 04:50:02
    On Tue, 3 Mar 2026 09:17:10 +0000, Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
    wrote:

    Steve Hayes wrote:

    On my 20-year-old Samsung dumb phone it is easy to set up a group to
    send SMS messages to, and it is very easy to resend such a message to
    others.

    Is there any way of doing the same thing on an Android phone?

    A few years ago, Google's default text message app (might have had a >different name back then) tended to "promote" SMS to MMS, because the >American developers didn't realise they cost more in other countries.

    Now Google Messages makes it easy, add multiple phone numbers to a >conversation, and it'll offer to save the group with a name (that's
    private to you) works with SMS or RCS ...

    I've never seen it offer to save the group with a name. That would be
    a useful start.


    --
    Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
    Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
    Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
    E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

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