To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff &
           All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Todd Short" <tshort@illinois.edu>

Reply-To: tshort@illinois.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Illini-Alert Test March 3

Last week the campus completed its first full-scale test of the new 
emergency notification system, Illini-Alert. I write to let you know that 
we will be performing another test of the product on Tuesday, Mar. 3 at 
10:00 a.m. 

If you are not registered to receive notifications, please do so 
immediately. If you were already registered, be sure to take a moment to 
verify that we have the correct contact information for you by following 
the instructions at: https://emergency.illinois.edu/enrolling.aspx. 

To register or verify your information go to: 
http://emergency.illinois.edu.

The initial test of the system successfully pushed email notifications to 
more than 100,000 addresses in under six minutes. Text messaging was 
generally successful, but approximately 3,500 text messages were rejected 
by one cellphone provider. The source of this problem has been addressed, 
and we believe the rate of text messages will now equal or exceed that of 
email notifications. For your safety, however, we are rerunning the test 
on March 3rd to confirm that success.

It is important to remind everyone that there is no way to guarantee the 
delivery of any specific notification. Therefore, I want to encourage 
everyone, if possible, to take full advantage of the system by providing 
both an alternate email address as well as a cell phone number for text 
messaging.

Large third-party providers such as Gmail and Yahoo still may flag some of 
these email messages as spam. If you do not receive your email messages to 
third party accounts on Tuesday, please check your junk mail or spam 
folders and mark the notifications as 'not spam.' That should minimize 
blocked emergency messages from occurring in the future.

On behalf of the campus administration, I thank you for your participation 
and your patience as we work to enhance campus safety.

Todd Short
Director of Emergency Planning
Division of Public Safety
This mailing approved by:
The Office of the Chancellor

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