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""--The simple minded media, always eager to dramatize, has seized on this spurious "deadline" and multiplied the effect. This situation has not only led to the waste of vast resources-- I know of at least two counties, one at the core of Silicon Valley, where press reports state that county government has replaced all of their "non-compliant" computers with the expectation that this will save them from Y2K problems(!), as if they have no application software or data they must keep operational--but also served to blunt or paralyze the mobilization of contingency planning efforts so vital to the actual outcome of the CRISES.""---

-- d----- (dciinc@aol.com), December 01, 1999

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-- Jay Urban (Jayho99@aol.com), December 01, 1999.

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