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May be, you are quite right; I think we'll hear a lot of stories aboiut Y2K, and 90% of them will be the fiction of the journalists. The kind of the 'foulish day' or the 'carnaval'. I mean. On 21 Dec 1999, Sean Donelan wrote: > Date: 21 Dec 1999 00:28:44 -0800 > From: Sean Donelan <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Internet Y2K and Europe, South America, and Middle East > > > On Mon, 20 December 1999, "Alex P. Rudnev" wrote: > > What do you want to monitor? real time problems are not supposed to appear, > > billing and accounting problems are not monitored at all. Why so many people > > aware unexisting problems (some computer refuse to work due to Y2K - let me > > smile for a 10 minutes hearing this - and so few people really understand Y2K > > problems (billing systems, accounting systems, daily-log-analysing systems, and > > so on). But this means that real Y2K problems appear approximateky 3 - 10 of > > january, not at 12:00 31-December. > > > > And this means all this ISP monitoring is useless, you'll monitor not more than > > people's paranoia about Y2K and will not monitor any real problems. > > I don't actually think the monitoring will pick up any Y2K problems. I'm > interested in the communications and monitoring to pickup all the other > problems, and trying to head off rumors when something inevitably doesn't > work. > > For example, tonight if you go to the US government's Y2K web site it's not > working. It appears to be a server problem with http://www.y2k.gov/ and not > a network problem. You get an error "The request did not specify a valid > virtual host." I don't think its Y2K problem, and if we could contact the > operators, we might find out what's wrong. > > If something like that happened in the early morning of January 1, without > good information, rumors will spread. > > > > > Aleksei Roudnev, (+1 415) 585-3489 /San Francisco CA/
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