[geeks] Paging software?

Alois Hammer aloishammer at casearmour.net
Mon Mar 31 18:41:56 CDT 2008


On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:32:43 -0500, "Bill Bradford" <mrbill at mrbill.net>
said:
> 
> Years ago, I used sendpage (.org) in conjunction with other monitoring
> software.  Unfortunately, most phone companies now have completely
> discontinued pager service and/or gotten rid of their IXO/TAP gateways,
> and
> will just tell you "use email-to-text-messaging".  
> 
> This sucks, because you can't guarantee delivery of an email going
> through
> a text messaging gateway.
> 
> I had a rather nice setup that I had to dismantle when AT&T quit offering
> IXO/TAP in '03.  Sometimes I think I'd rather just have a pager instead
> of
> a phone these days.

Having dial-in pager terminal access as a backup would be ideal, but
I'll settle for SNPP and/or WCTP gateway access by itself.  I've got
what looks like a comprehensive list of the gateways (including our
provider's); now I need the software to deliver the messages to them.



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