U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

Wed Oct 11 14:37:08 UTC 2023

I'm not disabled (any more than being 58 years old makes you), but I know
lots of people who are.

And procmail still works just fine, I'm told.

Cheers,
-- jra

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Baker" <fredbaker.ietf at gmail.com>
> To: "Warren Kumari" <warren at kumari.net>
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
> Sent: Friday, October 6, 2023 4:28:43 PM
> Subject: Re: U.S. test of national alerts on Oct. 4 at 2:20pm EDT (1820 UTC)

> It’s been absurd for a while now…
> 
> Sent using a machine that autocorrects in interesting ways...
> 
>> On Oct 6, 2023, at 1:15 PM, Warren Kumari <warren at kumari.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 2:58 PM, Sean Donelan < sean at donelan.com > wrote:
> 
>>> The Disability Advocacy Community has been extensively involved with CMAS/WEA
>>> since President Bush signed the WARN Act, passed by a republican house and
>>> republican senate, in 2006.
> 
>>> The dozens of disability groups helped design the sound and vibration cadence
>>> (which is different than EAS), and the policies for alerting.
> 
>>> Nation-wide testing (EAS) has been conducted since 2011. And nation-wide testing
>>> (WEA) since 2014. National tests were conducted almost every between 2011 and
>>> 2020, suspended during the pandemic.
> 
>>> The national tests are announced at least 60 days in advance by the FCC and
>>> FEMA. News media have multiple stories. Most state and many local goverments
>>> also had notifications.
> 
>>> If you haven't been involved with the disability community for a decade, and
>>> your school office didn't notify special education teachers about the news
>>> releases and government advance notifications, perhaps that's room for
>>> improvement with local school communications. Fire drills, tornado drills, etc.
>>> often involve loud sounds and flashing lights.
> 
>> Fine! In that case I *demand* that we stop having fires and tornados and
>> similar. It's super-disruptive to have to go and hide in my basement *every
>> single time* there is a tornado, or pull over every time a fire engine comes
>> barreling down the road…. and those sirens!... and the flashy lights!
>> Wake up people, fire truck and police sirens are *specifically designed* to
>> disrupt! It's all part of their plan to, erm…. well, something something….
> 
>> Ok, now that we have reached the absurdum part of reductio ad absurdum can we
>> get back to network engineering?
> 
> > W

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