Subj : Note from Daryl Stout
To   : Nancy Backus
From : Barry Martin
Date : Sat Jan 11 2020 08:59:00


Hi Nancy!

 BM> January 4th: I'm back!  Appears there some sort of problem with the
 BM> mailruns when rolled to 2020 -- two decade delay on Y2K?!
 NB> Richard just mentioned tonight that apparently some of the Y2K
 NB> fixes merely tossed the problem down the road 20 years.... maybe
 NB> that caught you...?  He said that nothing that I use would be
 NB> affected by that, though.... :)

I may have read the same article.  Prior I hadn't heard anything; it 
would have seemed there would have been some 'leak' there could be a  
problem.  (For the Y2K one I didn't do much other than screen print a 
copy of my financial statements from on-line, have a little extra cash, 
and make sure the cars were reasonably filled.  I didn't think things 
would grind to a halt and if they did would be isolated cases and fixed 
so running within a few days.)


 NB>>> It will be good to have him back... :)
 BM>> Yes; Daryl indicated he should be reconnected with us about now.  I
 BM>> did d/l a relatively large packet this morning.
 NB>> And so he is.... :)
 BM> Yes, see theres a message form him in this packet.
 NB> Yup, I just answered 4 messages to him from this packet.... ;)

And now more. :)


 BM> Yesterday it worked.
 BM> Today it is not working.
 BM> Windows is like that.
 NB> That's why I use DOS...  <G>  (and occasionally linux)

(OK: had deleted what follows and made sense to leave in to go with the 
above.)
 NB>> ... Workarounds are lifesavers... until they get waterlogged... ;)
 BM> And it's really bad when the patch has to be patched!
 NB> That's for sure.... <G>
 
Years and years and years ago I used WordPerfect.  Not cheap but worked
the way I wanted it to and had the functions I wanted and whatever 
Microsoft offered didn't.  Recall reading WordPerfect did a complete 
overhaul of their product about 2/3rds of the way into my using them 
because there were so many patches and sub-sub-sub-routines, etc., it 
was causing a significant slowdown.  So they started from scratch, 
rewrote the code, and came out with a much faster and better-running 
product.


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