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Re: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Thu Sep 6 20:36:15 2007

Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 18:52:37 -0400
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0709061339020.28859-100000@samwise.w-link.net>
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On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 01:46:18PM -0700, Rick Kunkel wrote:
[snip]
> Is SMTP to a mobile phone a fundamentally flawed way to do this?

Yes - think of the dependency chain involved.  Years ago, hacking 
hylafax (or similar DTMF sources) to dial directly to pagers was
a commonplace solution.

Cheers,

Joe
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             RSUC / GweepNet / Spunk / FnB / Usenix / SAGE

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