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Re: Have you been getting an "Emergency Alert" from the "Presidential alert" system repeatedly today?

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On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 20:29:48 -0000 (UTC), Ivan D. Reid wrote:

> 	I didn't but then: a) I don't have a mobile phone; and b) I'm not
> in the USA.
> 
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/03/emergency_text_message/

We get so many of these bogus alerts here, that I didn't realize it was a
country-wide thing until I read that article you kindly sent.

We have amber-alerts galore where some guy takes the car and the wife wants
him tracked down so she hands the baby to the grandmother and then calls in
an amber alert kind of crap here so I'm already inured to the constant
alerts.

And even the Amber-Alert road signs are "alerting" us, literally, in big
bright orange letters to "turn of the water faucet" and stop watering our
lawns while we're driving down the highway for Christs' sake.

Looking this alert up, I see it can't be turned off.
 "Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile. Cell customers do not have the
ability to opt of the alerts, FEMA said."
  <https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/10/presidential_alert_text_messag.html>

 "Because the message is meant to include "critical lifesaving
information," it's designed to reach as many cell phones as possible, even
those that aren┤ activated or don't have SIM cards. The FEMA official said
that in past, smaller tests, about 75% of phones received the alert. If a
phone is off, or on a call at the time of the alert, the message many not
come through."
 <https://fox4kc.com/2018/10/03/have-a-cellphone-expect-a-presidential-alert-this-afternoon/>

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Have you been getting an "Emergency Alert" from the "Presidential alert" system repeatedly today?  Arlen    Holder <a%rlenh.older@no.spam.net> - 2018-10-03 20:24 +0000
  Re: Have you been getting an "Emergency Alert" from the "Presidential alert" system repeatedly today? "Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid@ivan.fsnet.co.uk> - 2018-10-03 20:29 +0000
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