Re: emergency alert system

["John C. A. Bambenek, GCIH, CISSP" <bambenek.infosec () GMAIL COM>]

*sigh*

These systems are really a very very bad idea.


On 4/15/08, Mike Iglesias <iglesias () uci edu> wrote:
> Kevin Shalla wrote:
>
> > The Student Affairs people here at UIC are interested in creating a
> > system for emergency alerts (notifying students of some campus emergency),
> > and requiring students to update that information before they can register.
> >  We already have an SMS emergency message system available, but have no
> > requirement for its use, and of course it won't reach people who don't have
> > text messaging available.  Have others heard desire for this?  What have you
> > done about it?
>
> We have "zotAlert"...
>
> http://www.nacs.uci.edu/announce/zotalert.html
>
> We've had some issues with the providers getting the text messages out to
> all the people signed up for the alerts.
>
>
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