I have enjoyed all the C. Hamasaki Y2K Weather Reports. Recently, Cory has begun featuring reader contributions. These are also very interesting. In #126 Cory writes I wanted this WRP to be a collection of thoughts from readers. It was hard to pick these articles from all the submissions. Since these are all very interesting, and everyone has a different perspective, would it be possible to put ALL reader submissions on a single archive web site ? This would be interesting browsing for all of us, and future historians as well probably. If some editorial discretion needs to be exerted, it could still be employed to weed-whack any total weirdos.

-- Count Vronsky (Vronsky@Anna.Com), July 31, 1999

Answers

Good suggestions Count.

Some important ideas have been discussed at the WDC Y2K reception, unless these are recorded in a WRP or someone's personal diary, they are lost too. I'm aware of other venues that are not being captured.

For whatever it's worth, the pieces that make the WRP have wide circulation because one clueless person, for his own reasons picked them. The WRP pieces also "stick" because they are part of a series are both print and web based, and there is a "perception" that InfoMagic, Bruce Webster, Steve Heller, Bud Hamilton, etc. are more credible as part of a group than as individual writers.

The reality is, there's more than a little randomness to what makes a WRP and what doesn't. Was it a slow news week? Does the piece fit a "theme"? Was it well written as opposed to insightful?

You wouldn't want to read some of the submissions but then, that's true of anything. Take a look at c.s.y2k. There's probably 20% that's worth your time.

Check out the archives of the DC-Y2K-WRP listserv. You can get to it from the current.html there're are hundreds of articles, discussions, there. These are unedited. You might have to join the list temporarily to access the archive.

-- cory (kiyoinc@ibm.XOUT.net), July 31, 1999.