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To: William Peavey who wrote (6024)	6/16/1999 8:01:00 PM
From: bearcub	Respond to of 9818

Bill, thanks for sharing your brother-in-law's conversation with you. since you printed out and mailed to other family members some of the important issues and the already documentable warnings to them in other y2k matters, have you considered sending the section from that y2k assessment/readiness post a few weeks back from either john mansfield or c.k. houston posted, issued by the US Dept of COmmerce? as i recall, the section about international trade, and shipping in particular was kind of sobering in both its scope and specifics re: the shipping industry. will be interested in his response, if any, to that kind of information sharing. if you can't find it, i'll try to find it but it probably has aged off of SI, unless mansfield put it on his private important articles thread. one tragic consequence of all this is inescapable: the ordinary people, such as your highly skilled brother-in-law harbor pilot will feel so lied to and for what purpose? the troubles involved by our interdependence will emerge just as sure as i'm sitting here penning these lines. none of us is an isolated, y2k compliant being in a non-compliant world. so when 'we' are told again that, hey, "we're compliant now," who's going to be left to believe their 'boss', their 'pastor', their 'mayor', let alone act upon the "new" compliancy utterances yet to come.