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.i...@gmail.com> > To: "Warren Kumari" <war...@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 <war...@kumari.net> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 06, 2023 at 2:58 PM, Sean Donelan < s...@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 -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://www.bcp38.info 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA BCP38: Ask For It By Name! +1 727 647 1274
