I have tried the nickname trick and that hasn't helped, unfortunately. It's odd- my alerts from Interpage were working great until a few weeks ago. When I called Verizon about the issue, the CSR I got tried to feed me some line about phasing out the @vtext.com gateway.
Patrick John Valenti wrote: > Patrick, > > I don' t know if this will help, but it is possible to give your > Verizon account a nickname. Then messages would be sent to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Possibly that would have different rules for > filtering out spam? (just speculating, I don't know) > > My problem was the opposite, I was getting quite a few spam text > messages last year. It has declined, but I still get a few. It was > annoying, at 15 cents per message. And Verizon wasn't too helpful > when I complained, they wanted me to call and ask for a credit. My > planned solution was to disable the numeric version of incoming text > messages, and switch things over to the nickname. But they dropped > off to one every two weeks, so I'm just ignoring them. > > Oh, do the providers like SiteUpTime have a special agreement worked > out with the cellcos? I get alerts from them for servers down, > perhaps there would be some means of routing traffic thru them. > -John > > > On April 29, at 3:23 PM April 29, Patrick Shoemaker wrote: > >> Looking for opinions on paging providers. Right now using Verizon >> SMS to >> deliver alerts from the network monitoring system and various other >> automated systems. It appears their @vtext.com email gateway is >> getting >> "filter happy" and Verizon has no plans to implement a whitelist >> feature >> or do... anything. >> >> > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -- Patrick Shoemaker President, Vector Data Systems LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] office: (301) 358-1690 x36 mobile: (410) 991-5791 http://www.vectordatasystems.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
