convincing another to prepare

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I recently chatted (internet) with a friend overseas. As a recent GI, I did bring up y2k and what she's heard about, what she thinks. I offered my opinion that it was a cause for concern, etc., and went on from there. I think she thinks I'm 'dooming'. Actually she used 'doom thinker.' I told her that I don't know what will happen, but that if I had concern that something might happen and didn't convey that to her and it in turn happened I would be negligent as a friend.

She said if I compiled a list of the most science based websites, etc., she would go out and look at them. I know from a lot of the threads around on the forums, that many think it is just too late. It's late. I know. But I told her I had to tell her and then what she decided was her own choice.

One site address I plan to send her is Y2k kitchen. I already told her that. I said the name may sound a little silly to her, but the woman who put that site together was (is) a computer programmer and is on the N. Virginia y2k community task force (may not be the actual name... but...) and she is real.

There are tons of sites out there now about Y2K. Can any of you recommend some that deal with a succinct overview of the problem and that should make anyone read it slap themselves on the forehead and "GI"?

I'm gonna say Yourdon's site, too. North's might be too 'gloom doom'. I'm really looking for the straightforward, appeal-to-logic kind of places, not ones that say "count down to armageddon..." ;-)

Thanks,

-- winter wondering (winterwondering@yahoo.com), July 23, 1999

Answers

Y2K, ` la Carte by Dancr near Monterey, California

I've been trying to collect just this type of site. I have several intermixed with other useful pages on my own Y2k page. One of the best is some Quotes from the Quotable at another thread on this forum

-- GI_Dancr (addy.available@my.webpage.neener.autospammers--regrets.greenspun), July 23, 1999.


Check out Franklin Frith's site HERE. He takes no money for Y2K and has good government info posted to his website. I have not checked it fully but it seems pretty reasonable.

-- Copycat (dobbie@coastalnet.com), July 24, 1999.

Send her the links to the US government Web sites - Statement to Senate by Karla Corcoran, Inspector General, US Postal Service; State Department, CIA, testimony before US House of Representatives. Send her the open letter to Congress from the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Send her the FEMA and American Red Cross web sites. Send her your best wishes. It's very late.

-- tee (teefleur@yahoo.com), July 24, 1999.

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