[30206] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: suggestions? hylafax/IXO/ITAP addressable pager companies in
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek J. Balling)
Tue Jul 18 16:42:00 2000
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Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:33:05 -0700
To: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>, nanog@merit.edu
From: "Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>
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For a network provider, I would postulate that "e-mail to pager
gateway service" is equivalent to "no service".
Or do you plan on bringing on having someone manually set up a link
between you and the paging company to deliver the "network
connectivity is hosed" pages.
TAP (or other out-of-band) delivery method is currently (near as I
can tell) best-practice for sending alpha pages CONCERNING the
network. :)
In that vein, I would recommend qpage (www.qpage.org), which --
although largely unsupported [1], works exceptionally well.
D
[1] Retired Programmer Syndrome. Tom doesn't make time for feature
requests these days, its pretty much "on your own", but luckily, it
works pretty damn well as it stands.
At 1:21 PM -0700 7/18/00, John Payne wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 02:18:57PM -0400, Jim Mercer wrote:
>> in any case, i would like to do the same thing for the technicians
>>in London,
>> however, they aren't clue'd enough to ask their pager company the right
>> questions and/or the pager companies i've called were not clue'd enough to
>> understand what i was asking.
>
>Hutchinson Telecom have a TAP gateway - if you ask the operator,
>they can usually
>help. The Hutchinson Telecom gateway could also send SMS messages to Orange,
>and may be able to send text messages to any UK mobile.
>
>> any recommendations for direct-access pagers and/or cellphones in the UK?
>
>or www.genie.co.uk will give you an e-mail address for your
>cellphone or pager,
>although there can be some lag involved.
>
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