[tmtranscripts] Contingency Plans Suggestion

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Emergency Contingency Plans Suggestion

Dear List,

What I am about to suggest is not based upon any known problem now seen. It is simply a contingency plan just in case something does go wrong and there is a break down in internet communication and teacher message dissemination.

Should we in the United States suffer the loss, temporary or semi-permanently, of the internet and its ability to provide subscribers on the TML list, the TMTranscripts list, the TMTalk list, there ought to be some thinking done to overcome the loss.

Since I am archiving, and to some extent disseminating the teacher messages, I would like to suggest that SHOULD it become obvious that the internet is no longer dependable that each of you who have been taking responsibility for sending teacher messages, continue to archive them on a disk and send them to me on a monthly basis to maintain the archive and to disseminate to hard copy publishers to get the material out.

More important than my archive is the ability to get messages out to everyone possible in a timely way.  I will see to it that Allene Vick and Jim Cleveland receive the messages on disk or hard copy for newsletter subscribers.

These archives will be made safe for use later by placing them on CD's and they will be distributed to the following persons for dissemination back to their groups.

Persons to receive CD's (or 3 ½ floppies if necessary) from me in event of a communication's emergency:

Allene Vick
Jim Clevland
Bill Kelly
Calvin McKee
Donna D'Ingillo
Gerdean
Oliver Duex
Susan Butterfield
Rick Giles
This list should be discussed and further edited with necessary names for strategic cover in the country and to countries that can be reached in case of an emergency by the US mail. The list when determined should also have up-to-date snail mail addresses so I can be in touch.

Those who are publishing and who could publish during possible difficulties should think about how you are going to do it in the face of possible material shortages. 

Caveat:

This is not a message based on any known impending disaster. I am not intentionally spreading unease and fear, but searching for a way to lessen it if something happens. It is a contingency plan that should be put into place in some fashion before the fact of a disaster happens in communications access. The Teaching Mission is an outreach mission and it thrives with being able to contact people, and is less helpful if there is no way to get to people.

I am not dismissing the power and abilities of the teachers with Michael's back up to reach many people in spite of an emergency, but our outreach will be more sure and cover more territory if we volunteer to operate a pre-planned method for continuing distribution of the intelligence the teachers will be supplying in case of an emergency.

Let us discuss it and begin preparation when we have something that everybody knows of their part and what they need to do.

Be at ease!

Ron Besser

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