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

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (1516)	5/1/1998 4:32:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

'Responses to Y2K inquiries should be consistent, vague, content-free... This is one of the mayor problems facing y2k remediators: how to get reliable information (i.e. not 'vague, content-free') on y2k compliance status in products, suppliers, etc. Such recommendations do not help at all. From: 'State CIOs Meet on Y2K' John _______________ 'According to one dinner companion, while public enterprises must be more open to public scrutiny, much of the legal advice they are getting is similar to that of corporate general counsel: "Responses to Y2K inquiries should be consistent, vague, content-free, warm and fuzzy reassurances that are non-actionable statements in any future legal action regardless of the true state of the present situation. You should only say, 'We are aware of the problem, are working on it, and plan to have completed our remediation by the end of 1998 which will leave all of 1999 for testing.'" Everyone at the table smiled knowingly. y2ktimebomb.com