Re: More on Y2K "glitches"....
On Wed, 29 December 1999, Paul Ferguson wrote:
At 11:48 AM 12/29/1999 -0800, Vern Paxson wrote:
Hmmmm, a pretty misleading article. The headline is "The Glitches Start Marching In", but it reports exactly one glitch, the one we already heard about, and then has a nine-bullet list that the headline makes you think will be additional glitches, but in fact is a list of precautionary measures various people have taken.
True. :-)
Ask and ye shall receive. Wired has changed the headline on the front page to read "Trying to Avoid the Glitches" although the headline on the article page is unchanged.
Hmm. I know at least the bill from one (honored) bank where it is written: annual percentage rate 290.79% :-O Billings, sir -:). On 29 Dec 1999, Sean Donelan wrote:
Date: 29 Dec 1999 13:16:36 -0800 From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> To: ferguson@cisco.com Cc: vern@ee.lbl.gov, nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: More on Y2K "glitches"....
On Wed, 29 December 1999, Paul Ferguson wrote:
At 11:48 AM 12/29/1999 -0800, Vern Paxson wrote:
Hmmmm, a pretty misleading article. The headline is "The Glitches Start Marching In", but it reports exactly one glitch, the one we already heard about, and then has a nine-bullet list that the headline makes you think will be additional glitches, but in fact is a list of precautionary measures various people have taken.
True. :-)
Ask and ye shall receive. Wired has changed the headline on the front page to read "Trying to Avoid the Glitches" although the headline on the article page is unchanged.
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