On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:31:16AM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 07:55:52AM -0700, Paul Graydon wrote: > > I actually just got one for the first time in my life, seems to be the > > standard for most people on the team. Rather glad because I can easily > > sleep through my phone notifying me about emails. No way I can sleep > > through the pager beeping. > > > > We use a separate IMAP/S account for each person with wakeup > responsibilities. E.g. if my usual address is > d...@randomstring.org, then my wakeup account is > dsrwak...@randomstring.org. > > The IMAP server supports IDLE, so notifications are fast. Because it's > a separate account, only alerting messages go to it, and it's easy to > set a special loud alarm noise for the arrival of new email right there. > > This is secure, under our control, and generally more reliable than SMS. > > -dsr-
I ran that way at $job-1, separate email address, separate mail client (K9), separate ring tone as loud as it would go, and I still slept through them. If I received 100s in a 10 minute spell, there was a reasonable chance I'd wake up, but some failures don't result in that happening. The real underlying problem was I was getting 20+ emails a night on a typical night, 24x7, for years (the suitability of those messages and whether they should really be classified as 'critical' was a big cause of debate between me and other staff members) There, essentially, the decision seemed to be "if you don't wake up, you don't wake up." At this job that's most definitely not an option :D Paul _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
