[42478] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Emergency Alert System TEST - This is only a TEST
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Sep 17 01:10:55 2001
Date: 16 Sep 2001 22:10:14 -0700
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Marshall Eubanks writes:
> Do you know if they are interested in webcasters and
> other Internet news / entertainment services ?
I made some inquiries in 1998, and found the people I contacted
were emphatically *NOT* interested in using the Internet. It is
hard to emphasis how much they were not interested.
I started developing a protocol for using the Internet to deliver
emergency alerts to people who were using their computer, but
weren't watching the television or listening to the radio.
http://dranet.dra.com/nerf.html
Instead, every conversation seemed to turn into an inquisition
about how I knew what I knew about the existing system. That
was about the time I stopped working on it. The government
people got too weird for me.
