Monday, May 02, 2005

AOL Treats Fla. Emergency E-Mails As Spam (AP). AP - Emergency managers in Indian River County, hard-hit by hurricanes last year, thought the best way to get out weather alerts was by e-mail — until they learned that AOL was tagging the messages as spam. [Yahoo! News: Technology] An important issue when it comes to emergency preparedness and communicating with the worried well  - - and, it requires coordination at lots of levels. Ironically enough, the firewalls that we have to protect us work against the internet and IM as the tool for emergency communication when we need it.  Solution?  We probably all need to have our children and their "open network" lack of firewalls and privacy as the primary emergenency contact point.  They would get the message.. But, then would they do anything with it :-)  Based on how well they take messages from people who call me on the phone when I'm not here and they answer, I would say no. 3:00:10 PM    comment []

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