GSM/GPRS modems are cheap; so are SMS messages. The answer should be clear...<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Palmer</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:mpalmer@hezmatt.org">mpalmer@hezmatt.org
</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">&nbsp;The only<br>thing I spec for SMS notifications is a GSM modem physically connected to
<br>the monitoring box.&nbsp;&nbsp;There&#39;s still points of failure, but they&#39;re a lot<br>fewer than SMTP to some third party.<br><br>True paranoids (as we all should be) monitor their monitoring box, and it<br>might be permissible to use an SMTP to SMS gateway for that monitoring, as
<br>long as you&#39;re monitoring all the appropriate things so that wide-scale<br>failures (such as power loss) still get to you via your GSM modem (mmm,<br>local UPSen).<br><br>- Matt<br>Professional Paranoid<br></blockquote>
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