(The NOAA alerts are all upper case for some reason. I bet the email they send out contains the raw NOAA alert, and that triggers the spam filter all by itself).
We do send out the straight ASCII all-caps advisories and it does tend to trigger spam warnings. The AOL spam issue was troublesome last year, easy to fix by getting whitelisted by AOL. More difficult is the single-click spam reporting by AOL users which is routed to us. Our standard policy is to drop anyone who labels our advisories as spam to AOL (that's AOL's suggestion, by the way).
A legacy of the teletype machines first used for widespread NWS alert bulletins, which only had uppercase letters.
Yes, and also current UN World Meteorological Organization agreements on international weather telecommunications mandate all-caps to accomodate the wide variety of comms gear in use, especially in nations that still use the older gear.
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(The NOAA alerts are all upper case for some reason. I bet the email they send out contains the raw NOAA alert, and that triggers the spam filter all by itself).
We do send out the straight ASCII all-caps advisories and it does tend to trigger spam warnings. The AOL spam issue was troublesome last year, easy to fix by getting whitelisted by AOL. More difficult is the single-click spam reporting by AOL users which is routed to us. Our standard policy is to drop anyone who labels our advisories as spam to AOL (that's AOL's suggestion, by the way).
A legacy of the teletype machines first used for widespread NWS alert bulletins, which only had uppercase letters.
Yes, and also current UN World Meteorological Organization agreements on international weather telecommunications mandate all-caps to accomodate the wide variety of comms gear in use, especially in nations that still use the older gear.
Five gallons of gasoline have the destructive power of a stick of dynamite.
The explosive force of vaporized gasoline when mixed with air in the right proportions is
1 cup of gasoline = 5 pounds of dynamite.
National Ag Safety Database
So the explosive potential of a full automobile gas tank under the right conditions is truly staggering.
Here's the U of Maryland page on the CAESAR project.
http://www.caesar.umd.edu/