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Re: More on Y2K "glitches"....

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed Dec 29 16:18:36 1999

Date: 29 Dec 1999 13:16:36 -0800
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On Wed, 29 December 1999, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> At 11:48 AM 12/29/1999 -0800, Vern Paxson wrote:
> > >   http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33324,00.html
> >
> >Hmmmm, a pretty misleading article.  The headline is "The Glitches Start
> >Marching In", but it reports exactly one glitch, the one we already heard
> >about, and then has a nine-bullet list that the headline makes you think
> >will be additional glitches, but in fact is a list of precautionary
> >measures various people have taken.
> 
> True. :-)

Ask and ye shall receive.  Wired has changed the headline on the front
page to read "Trying to Avoid the Glitches" although the headline on the
article page is unchanged.





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