On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Deepak Jain wrote:
Well, I forwarded it to a few friends who really should know better, so if you call the feds, don't forget I confessed early.
The news people would jump on a story like this sharks on chum. Look at how much is made of a streetflood during a Y2K test. Actual damage/bodily injury from computer failures would be the cause of a whole series of articles on "how safe is your workplace?" and "how much does your IT department REALLY know about Y2K?"
Stranger things have happened. I have seen a few emails about all optical switchgear moving 100s of Gb/s around april 1st a few years back. Now I get product literature from vendors selling it.
Yes, but given much of the gear available I am thinking the venders would be better off sending their brag sheets *on* April 1st. --- As folks might have suspected, not much survives except roaches, and they don't carry large enough packets fast enough... --About the Internet and nuclear war.