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To: John Mansfield who wrote (855)	1/8/1998 1:54:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Jailbirds are brought in to beat millennium bug - By Michael Becket - From C.S.Y2K; from the Daily Telegraph -------- 'SO drastic is the shortage of trained programmers to sort out the "millennium bug" in computers that prisoners are being put forward to fill the gap. The director-general of the Computing Services and Software Association, Rob Wirszycz, said it would be first-rate rehabilitation for prisoners, "and at the rate programmers' pay is rising, soon it will be more lucrative than crime". '