I thought about twitter but am not thrilled with their privacy policy and I want it to be as private as possible. As for the phone tree, we used to use that years ago but it is slow and cumbersome. Would work ok once a year in an emergency but all of our members are volunteer and have 'real' jobs to pay for what we do and we need to get an answer back to dept of emergency mgment asap. We use a group email system whereby 1 member (dispatch) sends an email to our system address, which in turn sends it out to all the members. They respond back to dispatch with availability. It works, about %75 of the time, but is often caught as spam by cell carriers. A private email list seems like it would do the trick but you guys know way more about this stuff than I do.

Danny


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From: "Eckstine, Nate" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 3:48:47 PM
Subject: Re: List for Search and Rescue callout help

Twitter?  I would think you would need a backup notification system also if you wanted reliability. I have never found the nature of internet communications to be 100 percent reliable.

A phone tree would seem applicable here if all have cells phones. When a person gets a  tweet they text 1 other person

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From: LISTSERV site administrators' forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Danny Morris
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 11:52 AM
To: Eckstine, Nate; LISTSERV site administrators' forum
Subject: List for Search and Rescue callout help

I am with a search and rescue team here in Virginia and we could use some help with setting up a list used to callout available team members when we are called by the state. One problem we keep running into has to do with the 'reply to' address when sent to a cellphone (some of what I have been reading leads me to believe it has to do with Gateways for SMS but I am not expert, which is why I am here).

Is it possible that someone here could host a list for us? It would be between 16-20 members, each with an email address as one for texting their cell. Reliability is key as we can not miss a call for obvious reasons.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Danny



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