[Katrina-IT-Volunteers] Evacs leave without getting new address or phone into any website

[tmcd at panix.com]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Cindy Hintikka <chintikka at hotmail.com> wrote:
> It appears that the database used to enter people when they first
> arrive is a City of Austin database.  Contrary to what I had been
> told, it does not appear that entries are transferred into either
> redcross.org (Family Links) or katrinasafe.com.

Thank goodness, I think.  From what I saw by Wednesday night, the City
of Austin database is a toxic waste dump.  Someone else want to search
for the surname "harris"?  When I did, there were 50ish entries,
almost all of them identical and bogus.  I heard that a first name of
"daniel" was almost as bad.  I was also in on the effort to verify the
database against the original signin sheet, and at least half of the
entries had at least one error.

-- 
Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com