RE: Using Mobile Phone email addys for monitoring

[<nick.nauwelaerts () thomson com>]

> Ken Simpson wrote:
>
> > It's more effective to spend the money on SMS messages. Mobile
> > providers are forced to use very aggressive anti spam 
> measures, which
> > can add significant delays in message delivery.
>
> Recommendations on software and modems?

We've been having fun with these foxbox devices:
http://www.acmesystems.it/?id=70

Low power, solid state embedded linux devices.
Sending sms's is as easy as wget --post-data. We have 2 monitoring
servers and 1 foxbox connected to each via crossover ethernet, and we're
using a different cellphone provider for each. 

// nick