On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:47:53 -0600, "Thurman" <thurman@bigplanet.com> wrote:
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: "Robert Coe" <bob@1776.COM> wrote in message news:chgln2p8o0rt94k7hv55n2l8oqfde89mlq@4ax.com...
: > At work we have a modem-equipped PC that monitors various aspects of our
: > network and notifies one or more people if it finds something wrong. In the
: > past, most of the notifications went to people's beepers; but most of us have
: > switched from beepers to cell phones, so the requirement is now to send an SMS
: > text message to a cell phone. (Yes, we could send an SMTP message to the
: > phone's text-messaging email address, but what if our SMTP servers are what's
: > down?)
:
: The last time I tried, xxx-xxx-xxxx@teleflip.com still worked as a universal message address.

Apparently it's now xxxxxxxxxx@MyCingular.com.

: Some complain it's not an elegant solution, but it works and only wastes some electrons.

Elegance isn't the issue. We're trying to avoid a solution that relies on SMTP
mail for the reason stated in my original message.

Bob