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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: John Mansfield who wrote (6010)	6/14/1999 4:44:00 PM
From: bearcub	Respond to of 9818

i see that spin is not strictly the pervue of govt but is practiced with equal skill by the internet vendors the size of ebay. what is so darn 'peculiar' about this outtage is that ms meg whirlwind purchased a tracking software package after just a 2 min presentation w/in one week of then hearing the whole presentation. bet dimes to donuts she dumped the new gizmo tracking software onto the unsuspecting programmers straining to meet her 'new look up june 1 that didn't make it until june 9th, conveniently the day it fritzed seriously. now, one can't even get on ebay without accepting or refusing about a half dozen cookies. ebay never required cookies before during the last 4 years their complicated website operated with very few glitches. so, ebay buys a new ceo, rolls out a 'new look' to pis higher on the tree than the ceo before her, a new snopping software is suddenly patched to what formerly worked well, and has lost the primary tool -my ebay--that sellers use to manage their own auctions from one page, and then oops, "we have a software failure. and guess what, it's "sol's" fault." so, now we have a new variety of sunspots affecting communications? here's* a new spin on the ebay tale. one that the press release just conveniently left out. sure glad for the internet. it is getting old only getting "half a loaf" for factual stories now. too bad it is going to go down with the rest of the hokey perped on us by bill, scott and scully and his sidekick.