[Gllug] My humble opinion plus SMS question

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A Friend of mine wrote a little sendsms proggy, basically it
backengineered the lycos free sms system and just did http to the server,
clever, i used to use it in my init scripts to sms me if my server got
rebooted at home.

lycos do sometimes change the system so he tries to keep on top of it.

its on freshmeat, take a look

if mot mail me i have sources.

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On Fri, 13 Jul 2001 john.hearns at framestore.co.uk wrote:

> Formi wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Now an idea, and a question:
> > 
> > Every time I fly back we have a meeting my secondary school friends and I.
> > Usually between  8 and 20 turn up. Every time we have to phone everybody,
> > arrange the place, check that at least most people are free, etc. You know the
> > drill. Most of them don?t have or bother to read the mail. But all do have
> > mobile phones.
> > 
> > How easy would it be to implement the equivalent of a mailing list but with SMS
> > ?
> > 
> 
> Good ideas.
> To send SMS messages, all you need is a Linux box, a modem and
> some software called sms-client.
> I found this easy to set up.
> (My intention was to have some network monitoring stuff SMS me if
> anything
> was going wrong - so a web-based SMS gateway wasn't really what I was
> after.
> The monitoring box would need a direct non-network connection out).
> 
> Neil Harris, who works with me, has done some more sophisticated stuff
> with a Nokia Cardphone, plus Python scripting.
> Maybe if there is interest I can get hime to speak at next GLLUG?
> 
> As for the mailing list software, you'll have to work on that yourself!
> Remember though that someone will have to pay the phone bills if
> you go the modem or cardphone route.
> 
> 
> If anyone wants to try this stuff out, email me off list
> and I can try sending some SMS messages to you.
> 
> 


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