Subj : Y2K power failure?  ;-} (flamebait?)
To   : Everett Hertenstein
From : Russ Johnson
Date : Fri Jul 21 2000 01:04 am

>At least, he posted _something_.  There hasn't been a post in the area in over
> 30 days.  That includes a moderator's posting rules.  If there has been a
> posting, it didn't make it to net 116.

That's probably because most of the "trouble" spots are behind us now.

>The it looks from here, the area *isn't* still going if you assume that *going
> implies that people are posting messages here.

I've participated in echos that didn't see traffic for 6 months... But then, 
most of those are sports echos or somesuch...

> I thought it was rather nice that the changeover was made in a relatively
> uneventful manner.
> I don't really see a basis for flames in Melvin Aching's message.  One way of
>looking at it, y2k was a big joke.  OTOH, a lot of people spent a lot of money
> on items they didn't need.

The way I look at it, the *reason* the preparations weren't needed was because 
many thousands and possibly millions of people took on the monumental task of 
making sure there weren't any problems.

Everything you bought *should* have been something you keep on hand anyway. 
Canned goods, Candles, blankets, etc., are all good for ANY emergency. 

Since I was somewhat involved in finding Y2K problems, I found his referrence 
to it as a joke to be somewhat callous. The only reason nothing happened is 
because millions of people worked on it, millions of dollars were spent to fix 
it. All that pre-emptive work resulted in what looks like a fizzle, but 
otherwise would have been a catastophe. 

Russ

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