CNBC said yesterday that the site where the State Department's comments on unprepared countries is

http://travel.state.gov

I don't remember if the list comes out today or tomorrow, but I think it's today. I was there this morning and didn't see anything new yet.

-- Rebecca Waldock (RWaldock@aol.com), September 14, 1999

Answers

still nothing yet 11:00am and counting....

-- Billy-Boy (Rakkasn@Yahoo.com), September 14, 1999.

Perhaps more importantly for Americans not traveling, but planning to stay home: Britain's list. This is where the rubber might meet the road. I wonder what GB will be saying about the good old USA?

(Snip)

Gov't Offering Y2K Warnings Abroad

By TED BRIDIS .c The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - In what promises to be the best road map yet for identifying global problems caused by the Year 2000 technology glitch, the State Department is readying country-by-country warnings for Americans living or traveling in 194 nations.

The unprecedented warnings will include details from countries where visiting Americans could be affected by power outages, water shortages and other potentially serious problems if computers are unable to recognize the four-digit date 2000 on Jan 1. The report was being released today.

Britain said it also planned to publish today a country-by-country advisory to warn British citizens about nations most at risk from the Year 2000 technology problem.

(Anyone have a link to the British site?)

:)

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), September 14, 1999.

Ooops. Should have read further down before I posted. Britain link is:

www.fco.gov.uk

:(

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), September 14, 1999.

Hot link impaired today.

But the Url is correct.

:(

-- FM (vidprof@aol.com), September 14, 1999.

I just went to the site...

http://www.fco.gov.uk/

...and got this message:

HTTP/1.1 Server Too Busy

-- Linkmeister (link@librarian.edu), September 14, 1999.

The page is up. I have not checked it out yet.

It seems kind of wierd, international y2K warnings and Floyd could be worse for the US.

Good luck southeast US folk.

 US State Department - Services - Consular Affairs

-- Brian (imager@home.com), September 14, 1999.

Looks like the cowards are going to wait until AFTER the market is closed.

come on, let's have it already!

-- @ (@@@.@), September 14, 1999.

For a teaser... see...

Y2K Global Warning: Russia, China, Japan, Italy Top List Of Countries To Watch (Federal Computer Week)

http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id= 001OpS

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 14, 1999.

Anybody out there no how to hack into this site? It's probably sitting on their server right now.

-- @ (@@@.@), September 14, 1999.

It's up!! Looks like you have to check each country individually :(

-- Rebecca Waldock (RWaldock@aol.com), September 14, 1999.

I checked out the German site, the English Version is from last summer therefore relying on information from the spring of last year. This is going to be of little help.

Anyone read German?

  The Year 2000 Problem in Information Technology

-- Brian (imager@home.com), September 14, 1999.

U.S. State Department
Travel Warnings & Consular Information Sheets

http:// travel.state.gov/travel_warnings.html

Separate countries... what a pain!

 China (9/14/99)

 Italy (9/14/99)

 Japan (9/14/99)

 Russia (9/14/99)

Donno... first glace wasnt all that impressive. Looks like they decided to be... overly diplomatic.

*Sigh*

Diane

-- Diane J. Squire (sacredspaces@yahoo.com), September 14, 1999.