[26542] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: remember the lesson of the sendsys bomb
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex P. Rudnev)
Tue Jan 4 14:03:42 2000
Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 21:59:07 +0300 (MSK)
From: "Alex P. Rudnev" <alex@virgin.relcom.eu.net>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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> >
> > Real problems are waiting for us yet.
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> How will you be able to tell? Some companies have never sent me a correct
> bill on the first try the entire time I was a custoemr. I doubt they will
> suddenly be able to send me a correct bill just because its now the year 2000.
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> There will be small glitches in various systems, but you will never hear
> about them because most will be fixed before too many customers notice.
> More likely things will get blamed on Y2K which are really dumb operator
> errors.
I just showed _you rate is 290%_ example from the credit-card company. You are
right, most companies prefer doin't declare their Y2K _real_ problems, and we
have even some chance to save money due to this _hidden_ incidents. Let's see.
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Aleksei Roudnev,
(+1 415) 585-3489 /San Francisco CA/
