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To: KobaltBlauw who wrote (40182)	9/10/1999 10:46:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 117012

re: 9999 maybe Here, we had a cable TV failure which was quickly repaired, and several areas lost electricity(also quickly fixed) from what was reported as "limbs blown across power lines" despite very low wind speeds in a region which often has wind speeds in excess of 70mph. spin,spin,spin.

To: KobaltBlauw who wrote (40182)	9/10/1999 9:19:00 PM
From: d:oug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 117012

Bill Kobalt, you are correct that the 9999 used as a shutdown flag for an End Of Job marker was apples and oranges to a date bug. Most likely those vast number of politicans that ask and receive for a positive account of the Y2K bug also ask for ways to convince the public that all is ok and will be ok. They just implemented one of the ideas received in that 9999 thing. The politicans used the news media to do the dirty work of putting out a story of a possible chaos to happen on 9/9/99 because they knew that anything like this pulls in views and increases the ratings. The news media sucked up this story and ran it rather than real and more important events because of its increased entertainment value which increase views and those ratings and price of a commerical. The news media won, the politicans won with the following news. "Citizens more at ease with the Y2K computer problem because they saw how good the 9999 compter date bug was handled to prevent chaos, giving them confidence that if the Y2K bug is handled in the same way then all will be ok." Sad that not only were 99% of citizens fooled, but some politicans now think the Y2K is now extra dealt with in a good way. Doug