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by grayfaced 1212 days ago
Operational doesn't mean confidential. Sometimes reliability is the most important thing. For example sending a message to parents that school will be closed due to snow.
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Reliably getting the message to the correct recipient?

I just have a bone to pick with all this software using phone numbers as ID or notifications. Send an email where we can filter it or if you must, do an app with notifications I can tune to my liking.

Is SMS considered reliable?
My kids’ school sends email, SMS, in-app, and phone (configurable by me, except for emergency notifications, which seem to either tree or hit them all).

SMS is almost always the one I see first, but they seem to use it as just one layer in a reliability sandwich.

My experience is that it is about 98% of the time.

Every once in a while, someone will send a text that takes multiple days to get to me, but that's about the only glitch I see.