RE: Pager/ notification system?

["Cotes, Steven" <cotess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Because it's real hard to have email sent to your paging service
letting you know that your net-connection or email server is down
when your net-connection or email server is down.

We've tested both email-paging and dialout-paging and found that
dialout has been both faster and more reliable.

 - steve cotes
 - Data I/O



>     Okay,
> 
>         I can not resist any longer on this issue, so my question to
> those
> in this discussion is, "Why buy software for this function ?".  If I
> can
> send e-mail  to pin@pagingservice.com, and the AS/400 has built in
> E-mail
> SMTP support, why buy a package that does little else but  dial a
> phone, in
> the case of those looking for simple implementations.
> 
>         Now I know that most of this software does much more, like
> escalation notification but is it overkill in most cases ?
> 
>         Jeff Silberberg,
> 
> PS: *DISCLOSURE
> I do sell a UNIX Paging center that I call DAPage(tm), but I just do
> not see
> a reason for most AS/400 users to even need this type of support,
> given
> today's world of connectivity on the BIG INET.
> 
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