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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (21934)	7/18/1998 12:32:00 AM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 70976

Brian/all, "Web Stock-Promoter Floods Message Boards With Hype" July 17, 1998 By JASON ANDERS THE WALL STREET JOURNAL INTERACTIVE EDITION Daryn Fleming is a regular participant in Silicon Investor on-line message boards, often urging others to buy stocks and hinting about news to come. "Acquisition in the works," he wrote on one board. "Another big story due out Tuesday! I would buy more..." he wrote on another. [snip] subscribers interactive.wsj.com Bet he's not the only paid hypester on SI. His firm's web site wallstreetwest.com Read "track record" GM

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (21934)	7/19/1998 2:14:00 PM
From: Math Junkie	Respond to of 70976

Regarding elevators, I wouldn't be so sure that they are necessarily immune to Y2K. For example, one of the potentially nastiest problems to be dealt with in industry is that of microprocessor or microcontroller-based electronic controls which have the program permanently stored on a chip or chips. In that case, it is not just a matter of slipping in a floppy and updating the software. Furthermore, there are millions of these things embedded in industrial control systems, so that it may not be obvious to the casual observer that there is any computer circuitry present to experience a problem. If date information is being used to determine when maintenance is due, for example, or if date arithmetic is being used for some other purpose, then the possibility for trouble exists. Of course, systems which don't store date information won't have a problem, but it's an issue which must be considered.