It is sooo frustrating how the glitch news stories are all removed

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It seems as fast as a glitch is reported, the story is removed from the news site. The fire at the power plant in Australia is gone; not even archived. The blackout in LA WAS in Bloomberg, but it's gone. The Gambia story was reported by several sources as Y2K related, having power, banking, transportation, all down; now, that story is replaced by a "No Problem; it's all fixed story...and by the way it wasn't really Y2K".

I don't know about you guys, but I find it unnerving how the news agencies are "creating" the Y2K impression of their choice by manipulating which stories they focus on and literally disposing of the rest.

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2000

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I've had a very interseting couple of days, sorting through the info on the web about the various "Y2K" stories. I didn't expect the end of the world - but,boy, I feel like I've walked into an episode of the Twilight Zone. A couple of other sites have reported things like: posted January 02, 2000 06:53 PM This is an early report. Saturday the 1st, our office did NOT recieve ANY automated letter mail (DPS), or Routed flats. (this is "Semi-processed" mail we recieve from Coppel and Dallas) This means that the machines were not running in the early hours of the first. I do not know yet if they were taken down and just not brought up yet, or if they went down. I will have a better idea tommarrow when I see what they send, plus get plugged back in to the rumor mill. I will update with whatever I get.

For background, we use old 286 machines and most of Postal Mgmt thinks Y2K is a farce. IP: Logged Emilron Member posted January 02, 2000 07:13 PM

In my reply to an E mail, Sorry,Our office is a size 21 office in the Dallas area. (Barely, we are the end of the line) We have 3 CSBCS(Carrier Sequence Bar Code Sorters) that sort letters. We recieve letters sorted in Coppel (North Texas Mail Processing) to individual routes. We run them on our machines to put them in delivery sequence. Each machine has 2 tower PC's with 286 chips and boards. My understanding is that one handles the communication tasks, and one controls the machine. I'm not sure which actually processes the bar codes via the WABCR (Wide Area Bar Code Reader). Anyway, all three machines are linked via the "Station PC" which is linked via phone lines to Dallas. I believe it is a 286 as well. I know that they are all at least 4 years old and have recieved NO hardware upgrades. Software was upgraded in November with Version 3.03a. It caused many small problems but seemed to work. It still generated end of day reports flagged with a mm/dd/yy format. Our Post Master has stated "It's embarrassing that we spent money on this. Nothing is going to happen." Our Y2K contengency plan is our Janitor with a clipboard checking to see if the light work and the toilets flush, not much else.

I personally think that if anyone in the world has problems it will be us. In a way, I hope we do so I can laugh at the Post Master.

http://www.michaelhyatt.com/discuss/ubb/Forum35/HTML/000143.html

On the same forum, there is a discussion about a press release from Ford stating that it's Y2K OK - but someone on the forum states that Ford has been working round the clock since the rollover to fix all of the problems before Monday morning rolls around.

I don't know - I guess we'll have to wait and see. The info in the national press about the DOD lying to us about a major malfunction certainly hasn't raised my trust level one little bit.

Hang in there!

Terri

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2000


Hi meg and Terri,

It appears that I am "vomiting" posts on this forum tonight. I have not done so for months because I really had nothing to contribute.

Yet, here I am tonight. Perhaps I may be able to share some valuable insight. At any rate, I'll try.

In particular, I may be able to give you a bit of insight with regard to the media coverage on Y2k. Of course this is my own opinion, and it is late at night as I post this. Accordingly, my opinion is worth what you paid for it.

However:

Having spent the past year + , utilizing all of my hard-earned journalistic skills monitoring every "burp" on the Y2k scene, I believe it is a fair assessment to say the following:

Without question, the Chief Executive Officers of the "Powerhouse" media organizations around the world were advised early on, to use caution in their reporting of "rollover events."

Why?

The analogy that sticks in my mind the MOST, was a story that appeared on the wires several months ago quoting a powerful political figure in a country in South America.

This powerful political figure was asked about whether or not he would recommend to his constituents that they prepare for Y2k by storing supplies in their homes.

His response was that he could not, in good conscience recommend that they do so, because it might result in a panic.

How so?

In my own opinion--and I always reserve the right to be wrong--most people in most countries in the world DO NOT TRUST their political leaders. Corruption, etc., is the way their systems work.

Accordingly, if that political leader had recommended ANYTHING CLOSE TO the American Red Cross guidlines issued for the United States, the economy of his and other countries--following his lead--might have been severely damaged.

Now, how does that relate to America?

Simple.

Our president is the most powerful man in the world. Accordingly, anything our media reports/transmits is immediately monitored around the world.

Knowing this, and much more than this, I suspect our national media was being very, very cautious, quite possibly for reasons "us common folk" will never know, nor need to know.

Blessings to you. Perhaps I will elaborate on this later.

In the meantime, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

:)

-- Anonymous, January 03, 2000


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