anybody who works on call, or has a pager 24/7 will CRINGE at this.... I set out to learn some perl, get some attention at work, and look busy in between video games.
it turns out, with the help of the mighty monks, i stumbled on LWP! you mean that i can issue an HTTP POST command, and have it read from a file ??!??!!
uhoh...the pager company is see me loitering around!! it also turns out that I have a REALLY lazy co-worker...who gets a way with redrum, and thinks he has too much "crap to deal with all day....(well it just got worse)
well...when I got his pager number, this is what happened... 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
$|++;



use HTTP::Request::Common;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $file = '/home/steven/error-codes';
open(INFO, $file) or die "Couldn't open $file: $!";
while (<INFO>){
        chomp;


$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

$ua->request (POST 'http://www.pager-co.hah/cgi-bin/wwwpage.cgi',
                [PIN    => 'xxx5551212',
                 MSSG   => "$_",
                 ]);
}
close(INFO) or die "Error writing $file: $!";

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i put some dummy error codes into a file (which look strikingly similar to real error codes), which he gets as a page, but when he gets the page, he has no idea what is happening, because he never RTFM!! PS...this script will be set as a cron job @ 3 am every night!! ...and they thought i was an underachiever

update:

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Edit by castaway - restored original content

In reply to fun with your co-workers... by stevenrh

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