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To: Don Kelly who wrote (13666)	1/9/1998 1:29:00 AM
From: Don Kelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18263

Here's yet another hilarious Y2K scare article: (Does this mean Gerald Hsu of Avant will now be getting into the Y2K business?) techweb.com ICL Looks To Prisoners To Tackle Year 2000 Problem (01/08/98; 6:30 p.m. EST) By Andrew Craig, TechWeb European IT systems and services group ICL is considering using British prison inmates to fix computers that will be affected by the year 2000 date change, it said on Thursday. An ICL representative confirmed that there are discussions underway with the British prison service about using computer-qualified British prisoners to help tackle the year 2000 problem in the U.K. Meetings between ICL and prison officials are scheduled to take place next week. [SNIP] Today there is not much evidence of a skills shortage, said Feilder, "but by 1999, using prisoners will seem like a good idea and even using spotty 14-year-olds will seem reasonable," he said.