Sorin Toma wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > >> Hello/Bonjour, >> >> Does anybody do pagers? I found one for sale on Kijiji, none on >> Craigslist. I suspect the technology's gone to dodo-land. >> Cheers >> Sustain >> >> >> >> > Hello, > I use one, yes. It's easy to configure a modem to page you in case of a > server failure (ofc you can do the same thing to the cellphone, but the > cellphone is turned off while sleeping, going to a restaurant, to a > movie or when a boss has pissed you off, ain't it?). > >
You should be aware that the old pagers did not guaranty delivery of message. SMS guaranty delivery, but if the message has to be re-send it is put last in a very long queue... It might take hours for a re-send. Important things to know, if these tools are used to monitor any server (and time is important) David Montminy _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
