[30208] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: suggestions? hylafax/IXO/ITAP addressable pager companies in UK
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Mercer)
Tue Jul 18 17:40:52 2000
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:38:27 -0400
From: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To: "Derek J. Balling" <dredd@megacity.org>
Cc: John Payne <john@sackheads.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20000718173827.Q28413@reptiles.org>
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In-Reply-To: <p04320401b59a6ea30d85@[206.79.44.101]>; from dredd@megacity.org on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:33:05PM -0700
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On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 01:33:05PM -0700, Derek J. Balling wrote:
> 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.
i have a unix box in the UK, which will have a normal POTS line and a modem
for hylafax.
short of the POTS line being out of service, or the unix box hosing itself,
it should be able to do a variety of diagnostics (not all connectivity related)
and issue pages to the appropriate individuals.
using ITAP or IXO also allows me to have a certain level of control on the
formatting of the messages. some of these email->pager/cellphone facilities
out there do not have wonderful presentation.
> TAP (or other out-of-band) delivery method is currently (near as I
> can tell) best-practice for sending alpha pages CONCERNING the
> network. :)
yep, that be my choice.
> In that vein, I would recommend qpage (www.qpage.org), which --
> although largely unsupported [1], works exceptionally well.
i'm quite content with hylafax, as from time to time i need to send or
receive a fax in a hurry, and don't want to figure out where the local
printers are and then find the fax machine, etc, etc, etc.
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