Johanna Faust, a mixed race Jew, prefers to publish pseudonymously. She is committed: first, to preventing war, ecological disaster, and nuclear apocalypse; last to not only fighting for personal privacy & the freedom of information, but, by representing herself as a soldier in that fight, to exhorting others to do the same. She is a poet, always. All these efforts find representation here: "ah, Mephistophelis" is so named after the last line of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, whose heretical success flouted the censor for a time.

"text/talk unavailable" FIX TO SEND SMS/MMS


just thought i would share

my [expletives deleted] [network name redacted to protect the inept] mobile phone will not send messages all of a sudden, says "text/talk unavailable."  it should be available.  i paid for it.

totally by accident i came across a solution:  this worked for me and for others as well.  please leave a comment as to your experiences if you have a moment.

the fix:

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make sure 
you use the area code 
with the number 
you wish to text.





Be seeing you.