On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:40:13 +0100, "DubDriver" <dubsdrive1@gmail.com>
wrote:

>"DubDriver" <dubsdrive1@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:rRYqi.1595$hm5.662@fe58.usenetserver.com.. .
>>
>> "Hooch" <HoochXX@googlemail.com> wrote in message
>> news:1185686145.170401.206970@57g2000hsv.googlegro ups.com...
>>> On Jul 28, 11:10 pm, "DubDriver" <dubsdri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> "Hooch" <Hooc...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
>>>>
>>>> news:1185655884.198349.44380@d55g2000hsg.googlegro ups.com...
>>>>
>>>> > All of a sudden today I had several text messages from someone in
>>>> > Sweden come through on my landline (from 07953 966066). Is this
>>>> > 18185's system (who I've recently started sending texts through)?
>>>> > Because the texts weren't in English and were being read as if they
>>>> > were, none of them was decipherable! To add to the confusion, several
>>>> > other texts from the same person came through normally to my mobile.
>>>>
>>>> So the messages are from something/someone who knows both your mobile
>>>> and
>>>> landline number.
>>>
>>> Yes, indeed. Actually the landline is in the name of the person
>>> who's in Sweden at the moment.
>>>
>>>> 18185 will not know your mobile number unless you have
>>>> added it as a number you wish to make calls from. Have you done that?
>>>
>>> Not that I recall. Most probably not.
>>>
>>>> If not
>>>> I don't see any reason it's directly to do with 18185.
>>>
>>> Ah. The puzzling thing is why (some of) these texts should suddenly
>>> start coming through on the land line out of the blue.
>>
>> I think I know what is happening, when you send a text message from 18185
>> the caller ID is that of your landline. So, although you may of only
>> previously told the person in Sweden your mobile number he/she will see
>> your landline number in the text message and using mobile's reply button
>> it will go to your landline.
>
>Just to add to my own reply, I just tried setting up a separate new account
>with 18185 but this time using only my mobile number, hoping this would make
>text messages sent from website have the caller ID of my mobile rather than
>my landline. But instead they are shown as coming from 08081701708.
>
>

You need to make a call from your mobile to 18185 briefly, this
registers your phone and then the sms option will include your mobile
number