Jesus Fucking Christ
Feb. 5th, 2007 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiI just got an email from Elayna's school, with the subject line:
[Elayna's school name here]: Emergency
The message itself was sent through the same standard mailer the school uses for all mailings, but instead of a text message, there was a WAV file with the same subject line and no text transcription. Naturally (especially in light of the fact that the school had been evacuated two weeks ago over a heating system issue), I scrambled to listen to the .wav, only to find that "this is a test of the school's emergency announcement system."
Christ on a fucking bike.
If you are going to send a test message using this system, please use subject lines that convey that it's a test. Especially if you're using a process (like .wav files) that requires multiple steps.
[Elayna's school name here]: Emergency
The message itself was sent through the same standard mailer the school uses for all mailings, but instead of a text message, there was a WAV file with the same subject line and no text transcription. Naturally (especially in light of the fact that the school had been evacuated two weeks ago over a heating system issue), I scrambled to listen to the .wav, only to find that "this is a test of the school's emergency announcement system."
Christ on a fucking bike.
If you are going to send a test message using this system, please use subject lines that convey that it's a test. Especially if you're using a process (like .wav files) that requires multiple steps.