>>> On 7/24/2013 at 12:42 PM, in message <CALwkMd1OJ=e1Sx0=ajxmotvueiuyzugltzuujpqsstz+xn4...@mail.gmail.com>, Bill Pechter <[email protected]> wrote: >> Message: 1 >> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:15:26 +0200 >> From: Conrad Wood <[email protected]> >> To: Scott Roberts <[email protected]>> >> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [lopsa-tech] sysadmin day? >> Message-ID: <[email protected]>> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Wed, Jul 2014 Conrad Wood wrote: > >> sounds like everyone is so obsessed with pagers (for nostalgic or other > reasons) - I might use that as a present for the ssyadmins ;))) > > At least with pagers in my old Field Service days, you could decide if the > call was coming from the dispatch center or a local > customer by the area code... > > Now with cell phones, voip etc you have the 24x7 fun of getting a phone > call on the floating On Call Emergency Sysadmin Phone > saying, "You too can lower your mortgage payment." > > Love those at midnight... > > Call screening by caller id doesn't cut it anymore. > > Caller bots now call the university number that gets forwarded to the > System Down Cell 24x7. Ugh. > > Let's all hear it for the no longer useful Do Not Call list. The spammers > and crooks have won again. > > Anyone know how to get around this problem? I also never can tell where > the outsourced night time help desk will call from.
Several years ago we purchased an SMS modem, and use http://smstools3.kekekasvi.com/ to send SMS pages. This also avoids any sort of (local) network issue, as it uses the cellular carrier directly. Bit of monthly dollars, but has proven itself quite handy. Any SMS messages come from the cellular modem number (we actually have two). -- Jon Dustin - Network Specialist University of Southern Maine Portland, ME 207-780-4152 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
