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["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

ET Phone HOME!!!!  Too cool somebody else calls it that (My wife uses it in
her CL programming class , of which the first 2-3 weeks are just heres the
System I and what it can do.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:06 AM, <Nick_Radich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I too have my secondary number as my cell phone.
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> A couple of years ago we had a disk drive go bad, and IBM did call my cell
> phone, and told me they would be out to the office first thing in the
> morning.
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> My wife was wondering what IBM was doing calling me, and how did they know
> my computer wasn't working correctly.  I told her it was like ET calling
> home.  The box knew something was wrong and called home.
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> Thanx,
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> Nick
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> Nick Radich
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> Leave your office number as the primary.  Set your office phone to
> automatically forward messages that are not played in x minutes to your
> cell phone.
> Secondary number is rarely, if ever used.  I suppose if your office phone
> voice message said "The dirty rotten scoundrel has been fired - don't
> leave a message." IBM might look at the secondary.
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> I've had messages left on my voice mail over the weekend "Your system
> reported a disk drive gone bad, I'll try calling back on Monday."
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> Looking for input on the best approach for the alternative phone number to
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> use in Service Contact Information.  For years, I've been the primary and
> a coworker has been the alternative, but I've been considering changing
> the alternative to my cell number so IBM will contact me at home for
> hardware failures.  However, if I'm not reachable - let's say I'm out of
> town - then our organization will not be aware of the issue.
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> A worst-case scenario is that system crashes on a Saturday night and IBM
> leaves messages on our primary and alternative phone numbers and we don't
> discover the crash until Monday morning.  Given the stability of the
> platform, the probability of this occurring is very low but it only has to
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> happen once, and then we'll make sure it can't occur again.  Is it time to
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> buy a third party messaging software package?
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