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Re: US Federal Y2K web site is now online
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Germann)
Mon Dec 27 22:33:43 1999
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Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 22:25:55 -0500
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: Eric Germann <ekgermann@cctec.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Maybe they could use the marspolarlander.org infrastructure since NASA
doesn't have a use for it now ...
At 05:38 PM 12/27/99 -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>The US Federal Y2K web site www.y2k.gov is up and online. Of course, the
>government and the contractors believe they have prepared as well as they
>can. But as we've seen with event sites throughout the years, traffic
>always seems to exceed everyone's expectations.
>
>I read an interview with one of the spokespeople who indicated the
expectation
>is most of the load will come from the media, and the media web sites will
>distribute the load. In other words, if you can't get to www.y2k.gov or
>www.iy2kcc.org; CNN.com, MSNBC.com, bbc.co.uk, etc will have the same
>information.
>
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