Don't miss that mess at all!<br><br>I set up modems to dial out to a paging service to send "Please help me!" messages. It was a nightmare.<br><br>thus _all_ telecommunications is IP based now where possible. I know pagers are still around but cell phones clobbered them.<br>
<br>Once could argue that the crackberry is an overpriced two-way pager....<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Lightner, Jeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com">JLightner@water.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">One benefit of email to cell phones is it simplifies sending “pages” to users from monitoring systems such as Nagios and or device specific
alert configurations that let you specify to whom emails should be sent. Back in the old days you had to have something like Telalert and specific SMS connections to the paging companies with which you needed to interact.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Jim Kinney<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Monday, January 23, 2012 1:38 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <u></u>Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<u></u><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] sms via email from a computer</span></font><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">cool! a text reply went back intact to my gmail account.
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Another way to bump up my bandwidth usage at verizon!<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Lightner, Jeff <<a href="mailto:JLightner@water.com" target="_blank">JLightner@water.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">By the way there is a large listing at: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMS_gateways" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMS_gateways</a><br>
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Note that it shows various things for Verizon due to other ventures/acquisitions (e.g. Alltel's old gateway) in addition to the one I listed below.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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From: Lightner, Jeff<br>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:48 AM<br>
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@<a href="http://vtext.com" target="_blank">vtext.com</a><br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Myers<br>
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2012 10:41 AM<br>
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arrive as a text message on that cell phone associated with that number.<br>
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Anyone know what the domain is for verison? Surely they have something<br>
similar?<br>
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