Register With Vixo

You register with Vixo by sending a message like the one below to 07123456789:

Register as Esmeralda Smith

The short version is:

R A Esmeralda Smith

Once you have registered you can get a password for the website from Managing Passwords

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Send all SMS messages to 07123 456789

Send A Message

Send a message to the swarm about a topic, This will be sent to everyone who trusts you, and everyone who trusts them...

About Dancing : The Copacabana is hot tonight!

To find out how to set up trusts go to Trusting People - more advanced message sending is explained in Advanced Message Sending

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Advanced Message Sending

Vixo messages get fainter the further away they go. Normally after 6 hops they are too quiet to be received. You can choose to start them more quietly by specifying the volume

About Dancing Volume 4 : The Copacabana is hot tonight!

The Volume can be any number from 1 to 6

You can set the default volume for a topic using a message like:

Volume 4 For Dancing

You can be more general and set the default volume for everything

Volume 4

All volumes can be reset back to the default (6) by using this message

Clear Volumes

The short versions of all these messages are

A Dancing V 4 : The Copacabana is hot tonight!

V 4 F Dancing

V 4

C V

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Direct Messages

Messages can be sent directly to individuals via their Vixo name. You can tell someone your Vixo name and then if you don't want them to contact you again you can block them (see Advanced Trusting People). The format of the message is:

To Esmeralda : Hey honey, what's cooking?

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Trusting People

Trusting people is the key to Vixo. Setting up trusts is easy, send a message like:

Trust Meldrum About Fishing

If you no longer trust them, it is easy to undo it

Untrust Meldrum About Fishing

Anyone who trusts you about Fishing will then also trust Meldrum (via you). If you don't know if you want to trust Meldrum about Fishing, but want to give him a go you can send a message like:

Try Meldrum About Fishing

With a try you get messages from Meldum, but nobody who trusts you about Fishing does - when you are happy that Meldrum is worth listening to about Fishing, just send a trust message. If you've had enough of try you can undo your try with:

Untry Meldrum About Fishing

By default you try someone for 3 messages but you can change this - Advanced Trusting People

What happens if you trust Meldum about Fishing and Meldrum trusts Agnes, but you don't trust Agnes? Well you can distrust people, simply send a message like this:

Distrust Agnes About Fishing

If a message comes to you via Agnes indirectly it will not now be sent out. Ending a distrust is easy:

Undistrust Agnes About Fishing

What happens if Esmeralda trusts you about boyfriends but creepy Cruella trusts her and wants to listen in? Well you can block Cruella with a message like:

Block Cruella About Boyfriends

One crazy night, you and Cruella fall in at a nightclub, turns out she's a lovely lassie, well problem solved:

Unblock Cruella About Boyfriends

What happens if you:

• trust Esmeralda about Dancing, but just not tonight? see Presence
• want to know when someone decides to trust you about something? see Notification
• would like to see a list of everyone who trusts, tries, distrusts or blocks you, and about what topic? see Showing Information
  

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You can set these up on the website as well!
Send all SMS messages to 07123 456789

Advanced Trusting People

All the trust messages also work for the everything. The following messages will work:

Trust Meldrum

Untrust Meldrum

Try Meldrum

Untry Meldrum

Distrust Agnes

Undistrust Agnes

Block Cruella

Unblock Cruella

To vary the number of try's you will give someone the benefit of you can send a message like:

Try Meldrum About Fishing For 6

It also works without the topic:

Try Meldrum For 6

All the trust messages have abbreviations:

T Meldrum A Fishing

T Meldrum

UT Meldrum A Fishing

UT Meldrum

D Agnes A Fishing

D Agnes

Ud Agnes A Fishing

Ud Agnes

B Cruella A Boyfriends

B Cruella

Ub Cruella A Boyfriends

Ub Cruella

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You can set these up on the website as well!
Send all SMS messages to 07123 456789

If you trust Esmeralda about Dancing, but you don't want to go tonight, you can turn Vixo off for Dancing like this:

Off For Dancing

On For Dancing

You can switch all your topics on and off with:

All On

All Off

For legal reasons there is another way to switch off all your topics using the message:

Stop

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You can set these up on the website as well!
Send all SMS messages to 07123 456789

Notification

Notification On

Notification Off

The short forms of these messages are:

N On

N Off

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You can set this up on the website as well!
Send all SMS messages to 07123 456789

Showing Information

The system will show you a range of different things with the following messages:

Show Trusts

Show Volumes

Show Notification

If you send the following message you will get back a list of all the topics that you trust anyone about:

Show Topics

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You can see this on the website as well
Send all SMS messages to 07123 456789

Managing Passwords

You can get a password by sending the message:

Get Password

You can set your own by sending:

The short versions of these commands are:

G P

S P Jambos, ya bas

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Send all SMS messages to 07123 456789