[EAS] ... and now for something completely different

[bdcst]

Hi Barry,

I was waiting for the other shoe to drop!   The operator on duty
was indeed the scapegoat.  The text alert that came in from the command 
center
was a very poorly formed message whose author(s) should be fired.

It stated at the top "This is not a drill."
Then towards the end it stated "Exercise, exercise, exercise."

One could therefore misconstrue it to mean, this is not a drill but a 
real alert.  Please exercise it.
The difference would be in the word exercise versus execute.  If one was 
dyslexic it would be easy to confuse it as the real McCoy.

Actual alerts also say in the beginning, "This is not a drill."
Very stupid to include that wording in a test.
The poor guy is right to sue the state!

--Ira

"The message included the phrase "Exercise, exercise, exercise," the FCC 
report said, but it also included the "This is not a drill" language 
used for real missile alerts.

On 2018-02-02 10:48, Barry Mishkind wrote:
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