ASM Alerts - Enhancement

[John Bobinyec]

ASM Alerts, up until now, was limited to reporting only what Amtrak has in its tracking system. As convenient as that is, the alerting emails are notably absent when times are not posted to Amtrak's tracking system. The first notification that a train is in trouble, to an astute subscriber, is that there is no email forthcoming for the train's next station. In other words, the absence of the email implies that the train is overdue. However, there could be many reasons why there is no email, including the failure of ASM Alerts itself. To counteract that, ASM Alerts will now notify you if a train becomes overdue, considering both the train's lateness and your lateness reporting criterion.

The FAQs have been updated and contain several examples of how this works.

Thanks,

jb

http://dixielandsoftware.com/Amtrak/alerts

 

[John Bobinyec]

By the way, the general outage of the maps and the alerts yesterday, was caused by the service outage at godaddy.

If you hadn't noticed - never mind.

jb

 

[sportbiker]

Thanks for putting in the effort for our benefit!

 

[TimePeace]

Yes.. Thank you!

 

[John Bobinyec]

For Thanksgiving 2015 you will be able to sign up for Alerts for two new classes of service:

• Holiday Extra
• Northeast Regional Extra

Thanks,

jb

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