Service to receive mobile text messages?

[calbear2000]

Is there a service (paid or free) where I can get a phone number for people to text message me?

I'd rather get these messages in my email or on a webpage somewhere than give out my personal cell phone number to people...

If someone can point me to a free service, I'll send you $5 paypal...

Thanks

 

[HN]

isn't that just basically an email address?

 

[2Xtreme21]

Don't think you're gonna find any way to receive texts for free, but you can send them free at a lot of places. Here's a service I found that you need to pay for, but you can both send and receive them. Text

 

[calbear2000]

Originally posted by: HN
isn't that just basically an email address?

Well I'd like to give out a dummy text number to receive the SMS message. I just don't want to receive them on my phone...

 

[calbear2000]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
Don't think you're gonna find any way to receive texts for free, but you can send them free at a lot of places. Here's a service I found that you need to pay for, but you can both send and receive them. Text

Thanks Will. I'll look into this. I'm basically trying to get a phone number I can give out for companies/people to text message me... not sure if this fits the bill, but I'll see!