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Where Wayward Text Messages Go to Die

February 28, 2006, 1:44 pm

Stan Bubrouski, a computer-science major at Norheastern University, celebrated the purchase of his first cellphone in 2001 by concocting a nerdy private joke: He signed up for an account on vText, Verizon’s text-messaging service, under the user name "null."

It was, he now admits, a colossal mistake.

Null@vtext.com, it turns out, is the final destination for unaddressed messages sent over the Verizon network. Over the past five years, Mr. Bubrouski’s phone has been inundated with thousands of phantom missives from absent-minded text messagers and unsolicited messages from over a dozen companies. (eWeek)

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