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

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>]

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 () gmail com>
> To: "Warren Kumari" <warren () kumari net>
> Cc: nanog () 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 () kumari net> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 2:58 PM, Sean Donelan < sean () 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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