Maybe I'm Just Stuck In The Past.

[aki.livejournal.com]

Is anyone else getting [Somerville Snow Alert] emails from 2006?

Apparently street cleaning started on April 3rd that year and on the 4th, trains ran through Davis Station WITHOUT STOPPING. It was a mad mad world.

Comments

[prunesnprisms.livejournal.com]

Yes. I deleted them and moved on.

[ursamajor]

You're not the only one. Though at first, all I saw was the first part of the subject line that said "Somerville Snow Alerts," which made me sad because I thought we were finally done with this snow thing for the year.

The best part of those has been this line from the sig: "The City of Somerville is sending this notification as a courtesy only and accepts no liability for the timeliness or reliance thereon." I think over three years is a little excessive, ne? ;)

[no1onthecorner.livejournal.com]

No, but just today I received the confirmation link from my attempt to sign up for the snow alert emails in November.

[oneagain.livejournal.com]

*raises hand*

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of us received those. I guess some old mail queue got kicked. Poor old geezil...

Received: from rosie.somerville.ma.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rosie.somerville.ma.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id 177184A39F; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:44:09 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from geezil.somerville.ma.us (geezil.somerville.ma.us [10.254.3.7]) by rosie.somerville.ma.us (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD83FAB6 for <snowalert@lists.somerville.ma.us>; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:50:39 -0500 (EST)
Received: by geezil.somerville.ma.us with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2655.55) id ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 10:46:51 -0500

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got the SMs on my phone and the first thing I thought was shit, this means 2 more years of Bush.

[ron_newman]

What, they did 3-year-old robo-calls too?

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

No, they sent text messages to my phone.

[whaler.livejournal.com]

Hmm must be something wrong with the timey whimey.

[ron_newman]

There's a short announcement on the city website:

April 16, 2009

E-MAIL DATABASE SYSTEM MALFUNCTION

At approximately 2:45 p.m. on Thursday, April 16th, several e-mails were delivered to customers via the City's previous "SnowAlert" database, with reminders about street sweeping and MBTA issues, with a date of 2006.

Please note that this e-mail was not distributed by City officials, but was the result of a system malfunction through an outside vendor. We are currently researching the error, and apologize for any confusion or miscommunication.