<SPAM> Re: emergency alert system

[Kevin Shalla <kshalla () UIC EDU>]

It looks like the time is ripe to enter the emergency message-sending
business.  Perhaps congress can require it for all K-12 schools
too.  Oh, and how about requiring it for all postal workers, and
every other business where a shooting has taken place.  If we want to
best protect the lives of our young adults, let's focus on minimizing
automobile crashes, not sending emergency messages.

At 04:05 PM 4/15/2008, you wrote:
> 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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