Hi everyone,
The AP has a story today about how official govt emergency email alerts to florida residents during the three devastating hurricanes last autumn were blocked as spam by AOL. The company is now working to resolve this issue for future emergencies, but it raises some interesting questions about how govt agencies, ISPs and mobile phone providers need to work together to ensure that emergency notifications get handled accurately promptly.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050502/ap_on_hi_te/emergency_spam
I wrote about the story in my blog as well:
http://www.andycarvin.com/ permalink: http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2005/05/ensuring_that_g.html
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