A few weeks ago, at the close of the university's finals week, I sat in my home office and took stock of the clutter I'd allowed to build while immersed in teaching's daily tedium: the piles of unread (and hopefully non-urgent) mail, the stacks of magazines, the abandoned safety pins from various 5K bibs, the old printer-paper boxes now stuffed with...who knows what?
On Saturday, less than 24 hours after Mr. Doroff was pronounced dead, college administrators sent out urgent e-mail and voice mail messages to all students, and mailed letters to each student's home address, informing students and their parents about the incident, said Linda S. Campanella, Trinity's senior vice president.
It's a thin and familiar presentation, though like every Sept. 11 program it has its transfixing instants: excerpts from the long telephone call between a flight attendant on the first plane to hit the World Trade Center, Betty Ong, and American Airlines supervisors; urgent voice mail messages from passengers; the moments when controllers lost touch with each flight.
Therefore, FRFTF can be applied to various services such as the transfer of urgent messages, mail service, web browsing, and file-transfer protocol in SOTM environments of military and commercial communications.
For the life of me, I cannot remember the name of the financial services company that left me an urgent voice mail message asking that I call them back immediately about my availability to lead their annual leadership retreat on a island off the coast of Florida.
Such control helps mobile workers direct urgent e-mail, say, from their bosses to handheld devices and route junk mail and less urgent matter to another device, such as a desktop PC.
Mr. Cease, through another employee, sent an urgent e-mail to the department's central office.
Received an urgent e-mail from Al Gore with an unsettling subject line: "Disaster".
