Subj : Re: Telnet OS/2 BBS w/Cell Phone?
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Mike Luther
Date : Tue Jan 04 2005 11:29 am

Gee Sean ..

 SD> I still remember the code and I mentioned to my parents that I'm getting 
 SD> a pager... they asked me if I wanted them to still 
 SD> use the code when they paged me! :)  I'm teaching my 
 SD> wife the same code too... voice mail is fine for short 
 SD> messages (15 seconds), but for longer ones, just a 
 SD> short message will do via the pager... my wife uses 
 SD> the last two digits of her birth year, followed by 1, 
 SD> 2, or 3 (in de-escelated [? is that a word?] order), 
 SD> one being "call right now".  Of course, there's 911, 
 SD> but that's for extreme emergencies.

Yikes!  I did much of exactly the same thing ..

And BTW, it took a drug related conference with officialdom, asking me about 
the monitoring of the pager transmitters for crime scene investigation case 
workup with ZIPLOG, to teach me about how the '*' key can be used in this same 
encoded reply stunt game for this and that!

   ;)

 SD> Also, living with my mother-in-law, I'd like to have a 
 SD> "permanent" number people can reach me at.  It's also 
 SD> handy for the BBS in case something goes askew and 
 SD> one of my callers can page me with a voicemail. :)

In short, a short checksum PIN 'number' for key people serves very well. That's 
how I've worked with my Net members and others for YEARS now with no voice 
phone answered here since 1976 for very serious reasons...

 SD> To rescue the topicality of this message: I saw 
 SD> "SuperPager" on Hobbes... wonder if it's any good...

I have it installed in test mode here for OS/2.  It handles short messages 
without registering the application.

But in my case I've really not used it and registered it in that I wrote my own 
entire pager interface dialing, voice, and text messaging tool that is 
completely integrated into the ZIPLOG suite.  In that it is completely 
interfaced to all the suite variables, public and private in the suite, it's 
useless for distribution as such as a tool though.

 SD> Later,
 SD> Sean

No Sean.  SOONER .. and that doesn't mean that just because you were in the 
first here you were necessarily from Oklahoma .. and that's not a bad thing 
either for OS/2'ers.

GDRSLAC  ' Grinning, Ducking, Running sidewise like a crab '


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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