# Text messages that re-send themselves **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 20, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-messages-that-re-send-themselves/610101 "2012-01-20T04:12:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-messages-that-re-send-themselves/610101/1 "2012-01-20T04:12:41Z")
I only regularly text about five people, and they all have iPhones. I have a BlackBerry. Sometimes one of them will send me a message and then later in the day the message will arrive again. They have told me that sometimes messages of mine will re-send themselves, too. This does not happen often, maybe only once in 25 or so messages. This happen to anyone else? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-messages-that-re-send-themselves/610101/2 "2012-01-20T04:18:41Z")
Nope. I have an iPhone. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-messages-that-re-send-themselves/610101/3 "2012-01-20T04:26:38Z")
My brother-in-law uses text-to-voice messages sometimes, and we often get duplicates of those. I think he has a Blackberry. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-messages-that-re-send-themselves/610101/4 "2012-01-20T05:28:49Z")
I don’t know what text to voice messages are or how to do them. All of us only type messages. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-messages-that-re-send-themselves/610101/5 "2012-01-20T20:13:34Z")
Which provider do they/you have? is an important question. It’s happened with me with a Verizon feature phone. I am speculating it is because Verizon has had crappy coverage, and it sends the message, but doesn’t return the “sent successfully” signal. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-messages-that-re-send-themselves/610101/6 "2012-01-20T21:29:53Z")
Sprint. I do get the “sent successfully” indicator. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-messages-that-re-send-themselves/610101/7 "2012-01-20T23:35:41Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I don’t know what text to voice messages are or how to do them. All of us only type messages. It’s where he puts in a text message, but it comes to our land line as a voice message (read by a robotic voice). He does this when there’s a message he needs to send to a bunch of people at one time. Everybody else gets a text message on a cell phone, but we have no cell phone so it goes to voice. I have no idea how he does it. Could be magic 🆒. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-messages-that-re-send-themselves/610101/8 "2012-01-20T23:55:06Z")
Sounds like magic. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hairy\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecc23a/32.png) [@Hairy\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hairy_Bob)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-messages-that-re-send-themselves/610101/9 "2012-01-21T10:12:17Z")
> [@Sudden\_Kestrel](#): > > It’s where he puts in a text message, but it comes to our land line as a voice message (read by a robotic voice). He does this when there’s a message he needs to send to a bunch of people at one time. Everybody else gets a text message on a cell phone, but we have no cell phone so it goes to voice. I have no idea how he does it. Could be magic 🆒. I’m pretty sure that’s done by your landline provider. This side of the pond, if you send a text message to a landline then you get a robotic voice reading out the phone number it was sent from, then the message body iirc. Ymmv. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-messages-that-re-send-themselves/610101/10 "2012-01-21T10:38:42Z")
> [@Hairy\_Bob](#): > > I’m pretty sure that’s done by your landline provider. This side of the pond, if you send a text message to a landline then you get a robotic voice reading out the phone number it was sent from, then the message body iirc. Ymmv. For a sadly short time in the UK, it was Dr Who reading it out. (Tom Baker.) ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-messages-that-re-send-themselves/610101/11 "2012-01-21T12:19:08Z")
I have sometimes gotten a text that says duplicate message in the past on a razor flip phone (also motorola btw). I assume that what was going on with post #5. the message made it to the phone but the tower didn’t get the confirmation and resends. That phone was just smart enough to ignore but note the second sending. I also believe I was not billed for duplicates as I did check. A friend had a BB and would get duplicates aslo IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2012, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/text-messages-that-re-send-themselves/610101/12 "2012-01-21T13:44:34Z")
“I assume that what was going on with post #5. the message made it to the phone but the tower didn’t get the confirmation and resends.” Wow. Now THAT makes sense.