A second hand report, forwarded from Virginia Hirsch. Does anyone know the timing of when this happened?

"Thanks for the interesting e-mail on Aetna [see separate posting]; I forwarded it to as many people as I could.

There were hundreds, if not thousands of unreported (covered up?!?) Y2K failures the world over. For example,did you know that AAA (American Automobile Association)lost its entire nationwide computer system for nearly a week?!? The WHOLE processing center simply shut down, right at midnight! They had to run their entire national dispatch and control center MANUALLY until they could fix it!

You and the rest of the public probably NEVER heard about this and everwill. I know only because I know someone who works for AAA. No person or company will ever admit or report any Y2K failures unless they absolutely must and have no other choice; it's too bad the general public will never fully understand what serious danger they and their families were really in, and how delicate our balance of technology remains to this day.

The potentially catastrophic reliance and interdependance of systems continues unabated by the wake-up call of Y2K..."

-- Jan Nickerson (JaNickrson@aol.com), April 18, 2000