Computer systems crash, all over the world, every day. That is an undeniable fact.

That being the case, why are you Y2K conspiracy freaks blaming every single computer glitch on the stupid date rollover.

Give it up.

It is bad enough you were stupid enough to fall for it without perpetuating your idiotic behavior further.

-- Bill Parker (trimmer_cc@hotmail.com), January 03, 2000

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Hey Bill,

Since you are so well versed in IT issues, perhaps you can further the debate into data corruption and the cause of such problems.

What's your take? Would you like to debunk Mr. Dale Way of the IEEE?

Mike

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-- Mike Taylor (mtdesign3@aolx.com), January 03, 2000.

Y2K Denial.

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-- SH (squirrel@huntr.com), January 03, 2000.

And Bill, your appearance here today, after the roll-over has really helped enlighten the quest for knowledge about what would happen with y2k. Such foresight, in this day and age, is unusual.

-- monday morning quarterback (hindsight@20/20.com), January 03, 2000.

Monday Dec 34 1999

hey BILL, where were you last year when we needed you!

this is just the type of insightful commentary that we needed!

We're looking for a new leader!

maybe you can help lead us into the year 19100! or 3900..whatever, take your pick!

-- plonk! (realaddress@hotmail.com), January 03, 2000.

In Bill's defense, if you want an accurate experiment as to the results of Y2K, then we should have been monitoring the status of systems worldwide *prior* to the rollover to present and accurate baseline....

Systems do crash daily...so what was the increase after 00:00:00 Jan 1st?

-- Bob (bob@bob.bob), January 03, 2000.

would be nice to know percentages of current failures against average daily failures.

We had some glitches mainly due to service providers who are fixing feeds and interfaces as we speak, but they have been known to screw things up without warning and have to fix them anyway. Nothing worse yet than any other major conversion we have gone thru... actually less than a few that I have been thru in the last 15 years.

-- KatInSeattle (YouC@ntSpamMe.com), January 03, 2000.

I love reading posts here!

-- Michael (michaelteever@buffalo.com), January 03, 2000.

Computers crash every day, but Super Stock Manias crash once in a generation!

-- dinosaur (dinosaur@williams-net.com), January 03, 2000.