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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: suggestions? hylafax/IXO/ITAP addressable pager companies in UK
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. -- [ Jim Mercer [email protected] +1 416 410-5633 ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ]
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