Eric,

Some cell phone companies, such as Sprint PCS will allow you to send a text
message to your phone by email.  For Sprint its
phone#@messageing.sprintpcs.com.

Mike Distefano, MJ Technologies, Inc.
Ofc:    913-599-5526
Fax:    913-599-5528
Mobile: 913-568-4910
mdistefano@mjtek.com

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net
>[mailto:owner-kclug@marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Eric Rossiter
>Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 11:11 PM
>To: kclug@kclug.org
>Subject: software to page me
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>Hi Lugnuts,
>
>Ok, I'll send this from home since it looks like I can send to the list
>now.  I got an F on my test from Hanasaki =)
>
>Couldn't send to the list from work today... all of them came back
>"Access denied"... I got home tonight to discover I left Ximian
>Evolution open here at home.  That shouldn't be enough to cause me
>today's grief, should it?  How about the filters I set up last night?
>
>Anyway.... I need some help... I need to find an app that will page me
>or call my cell when a service or server dies here at work.
>
>I have NetSaint up and running and monitoring hosts and services.  It
>sends email to me now, but I don't think it has the
>capabilities to page
>a phone or pager.  Does anyone know?  Will NetSaint do that in
>conjunction w/a 3rd party app?
>
>I'd google but I dont know exactly what I'm looking for.  Paging
>software?  Notification software?  Anyone know what I'm talking about,
>or where I should look?
>
>Thanks guys and gals,
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>E
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