I agree. I also remember a few years ago declining a service from my (then) provider that would give people the opportunity to send an email to a special address. A text-to-voice system would translate an incoming email into a voice message.

Another provider was willing to do it the other way - voice-mail to e-mail: if you didn't answer your phone, the caller could leave a voice-message, recorded by the provider. The voice-message would then be send as an email - not text, but a sound file. This was in the pre-adsl era, with pay-per-tick calls. I declined that service as well.

Anyway, after pagers, and later mobile phones, became available, in jobs requiring monitoring boxes/services, I've send text messages to those devices. Most of the time this was done by just sending out an email.

Perl --((8:>*

In reply to Re^4: outbound call from perl -- best approach? by Perl Mouse
in thread outbound call from perl -- best approach? by water

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