[EAS] EAS and WEA usage during the protests/riots/civil unrest

[Dave Turnmire]

On 6/10/2020 7:25 AM, Dave Kline wrote:
> All of this has now lead me to conclude that the alert I saw on Saturday afternoon, had actually come in on Friday evening,
I no doubt should know this... but... in my low population area, WEA 
alerts are pretty rare, so my experience is limited:

Don't WEA alerts have an event duration or expiration time such as EAS 
does?  I ran into an experience recently when traveling to another area 
of our state.  I received MULTIPLE Amber alert messages... but they had 
been sent WEEKS before!  I understand how one can get alerts when 
driving into an area that alerts were targeted for, or after turning on 
a phone that had been off.  But when one gets alerts that are irrelevant 
to ANYONE... because the event involved is in the distant past... 
something seems off.

Is this a case of an originator failing to specify the duration? Which 
in my mind, would also imply poor software design if they were allowed 
to do that?  Or is it a case of a problem with the cell service or the 
phone itself?

Also, my phone was attempting to read the text to me... but having 
trouble because the text clearly wasn't written with TTS in mind. Some 
of the abbreviations weren't even readily understood by humans.  I 
realize that a 90 character limit (at least on many phones), poses 
challenges, but an unrecognizable alert doesn't help anyone...

Dave