Re: [Paddlewise] SPOT - A few observations

> > It should be pointed out that the SPOT system does allow you to
> > send your distress signal to multiple email addresses.  This does
> > not eliminate possible delay, but it does statistically improve your
> > chances of the message being delivered in a timely fashion.
>
> Probably, but not definitely.  Part of this depends on whether or not
> the email origination point is scrupulously compliant with both de jure
> and de facto standards for email.  .....
> So unless they have at least one very senior and very experienced person
> taking care of their outbound email server(s), I wouldn't want to rely
> on it for *any* delivery, let alone time-critical delivery.

Just thinking aloud. Only 911 out of all SPOT messages is time-critical, if
I've got it right. OK signal or Help needed (the latter is not an emergency)
go to multiple recipents but these messages are not time-critical.

911 signal (to whoever and whatever route it goes after receipt at the SPOT
HQ - which route is still not clear to me) IS time-critical, but it is not
being sent to multiple recipients.
Or is it? meaning, that 911 goes not only to SPOT HQ and eventual
end-receiver like USCG, CCG etc, but to aunt Millly as well, just in case,
to statistically improve the chances?  Then, - yes, aunt Milly could save
life of the 911 sender, if she is home and checking emails at this exact
moment, or is so hi-tech that receives wireless emails wherever she is, and
at all times, 24/7.  I don't have a wireless email, for God's sake. My job
doesn't require it, and everything else can wait (or use a normal "voice"
cell phone). I don't expect too many of my friends and relatives to be awake
and on wireless or "land" email contact 24/7 for me. Unless this is some
major expedition with responsible support group taking care of incoming
emails 24/7, this multiple receipt of 911 signal does very little to
improves the statistics (assuming, that 911 is being sent to mutiple
recepeints).
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