Subj : Privacy is Power: ta
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Mon Sep 13 2021 17:02:27

Hello Kurt,

Monday September 13 2021 08:03, you wrote to me:

 KW> One fun pager trick we'd have was to go to a bar with friends and page
 KW> our missing friend with the number of the bar. He'd call the number,
 KW> they'd say the name of the bar, and you'd know where to go to meet
 KW> them.

That's actually a good idea.  My parents, when I was young and living on my own, would page me with the last two numbers of their respective birth year with a scale of 1-3, 3 being lowest priority, and 911 if I needed to call them immediately.  That worked for a very long time!  My sisters would use that same system with me if need be.

I am still thinking about getting a pager then getting a basic flip phone with low minutes.  In my condition, I should always have a cell phone in case of an emergency but everyone else besides close friends and family can call Mr. Pager.

 KW> When I started out consulting, I found a desk phone with a built in
 KW> answering machine that would page out the caller ID of anyone who'd
 KW> called. It was very handy in a pre-cell phone world.

That is very handy.  I have discovered I could write a simple program to page me if there's problems with the BBS using an alphanumeric pager.

I have grown a bit "anti-technology" (no pun intended) as I've grown older.  I despise being in constant contact in one way but the other I grudgingly admit it has its purposes.

-- Sean

.... Murphy's First Law: nothing is as easy as it looks.
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