I'm not sure I'd fault Verizon, it's got to be a major pain to keep the spam level down on pagers. It would probably be useful if SMS/paging companies posted a "this is the approved way to...." guide for customers.
I set up nagios/netsaint with a pager system, and programmed it to send an "all is well" page twice a day to a couple of key people. If you have one of the super-duper(tm) motorola pagers that skytel uses, you can even filter those messages so they won't set off the audible alert; they just show up in the "received" list. I made a habit of checking the freshness of those messages right before staff meetings and customer calls. --- "Michael R. Wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Summary: > If you use Verizon Wireless pagers (pagers with an > @myairmail.com > email address) to monitor your network, your > alerts may be blocked > without notice. > > The saga: > > We use multiple paging companies for our pagers, > under the theory > that redundancy is a "good thing". Last week, our > people who carry > pagers from Verizon Wireless realized that they were > not getting > pages from our Netsaint monitoring system, although > they were > getting other pages and people carrying pagers from > other paging > companies were getting Netsaint pages.