Re: emergency alert system

[David Lundy <dlundy () PACIFIC EDU>]

Whether good or not, they are required in Virginia 
http://connect.educause.edu/blog/Rodney/virginiarequiresfirstwarn/46587?time=1208293572
and have been proposed in Congress
http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=pfZfj8tVmYjsssrXhcYSZFcDtNwwnkkz

David Lundy


-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv on behalf of John C. A. Bambenek, GCIH, CISSP
Sent: Tue 4/15/2008 1:47 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] emergency alert system
 
*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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        Mike Iglesias                          Email:       iglesias () uci edu
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