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cybrsaylr
November 8th, 2019, 07:06 AM
Been using Google Voice for years with Ubuntu with no issues, until last night.
GV is free and works fine for texting messages all over the world.
When done using my desktop it is shutdown for the night, around 11 pm.
This morning restarted my PC and when I went to GV, I discover 2 text messages were sent by my shutdown PC to a friend around 3 am then again at 4 am!
My friend asked if I had sent them. I replied NO and don't know why they were sent on GV! Said I was asleep at that time and my PC was shutdown!

Anyone have any ideas how or what caused this to happen?

Autodave
November 8th, 2019, 01:36 PM
If the machine was shut down and not running, it is impossible for it to send a message.

Was it shut down, suspended, did you merely log out, ??

mc4man
November 8th, 2019, 01:51 PM
Maybe you sent them quite some time ago?
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/confusion-as-more-than-100000-mobile-users-receive-undelivered-texts/news-story/7486ac491cc3d39d660c107ee2e938a1

cybrsaylr
November 8th, 2019, 05:08 PM
If the machine was shut down and not running, it is impossible for it to send a message.

Was it shut down, suspended, did you merely log out, ??

PC was completely shutdown! Do that every night. That's why I thought it was impossible to send a text but it did, twice.

cybrsaylr
November 8th, 2019, 05:09 PM
Maybe you sent them quite some time ago?
https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/confusion-as-more-than-100000-mobile-users-receive-undelivered-texts/news-story/7486ac491cc3d39d660c107ee2e938a1

Interesting

That is exactly what happened to me!

SeijiSensei
November 8th, 2019, 06:05 PM
I got Valentine's Day messages from my daughter the night before last. Lots of people did. I felt sad for people who received messages from deceased loved ones.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/7/20953422/text-messages-delayed-received-overnight-valentines-day-delay