Anyone in Southeastern Wisconsin wishing to contribute to The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's online forum can go to the following (sorry, the URL is a monster):

http://www.jsonline.com/cgi-bin/ubb/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=Y2K+-+Issues+and+Discussion&number=124&DaysPrune=20&LastLogin=

I have copied several of my previous posts, as the BBM informed me he was unable to do so.

-- Steve Hartsman (hartsman@ticon.net), November 23, 1998

Answers

Here's an easy hotlink to it (then you can bookmark it):

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Y2K Forum

Thanks Steve and good job!

-Arnie

-- Arnie Rimmer (arnie_rimmer@usa.net), November 23, 1998.

Congratulations Steve! Can you tell "how" you managed to create this online forum with your local paper, so the rest of us can work at it on our "local" levels?

Thanks, Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), November 23, 1998.

Persistence.

-- Arnie Rimmer (arnie_rimmer@usa.net), November 23, 1998.

Diane:

See Arnie's one-word answer.

Interestingly, the BBM promised a Y2K forum over a month ago. I openly enquired as to why there was a delay, speculating that there was pressure from the editorial board.

Who knows? I asked the BBM whether he was at liberty to discuss the Y2K status of Journal-Sentinel, Inc. This is his response:

Offically, the answer to your question is "No, I cannot discuss the Y2K status of Journal-Sentinel, Inc." Unofficially, I'll let you know that I belong to 3 company-wide committees and multiple sub-committees about Y2K. That's just scratching the surface of what we're doing. We are bound and determined to produce a paper on January 1, 2000, as well as January 2, 2000.

All I can say is, to quote Dr. Seuss (I have a 14 month old): From there to here From here to there Funny things Are everywhere

-- Steve Hartsman (hartsman@ticon.net), November 24, 1998.