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To: Bill Ounce who wrote (2607)9/24/1998 12:38:00 PM
From: Joseph E. McIsaac  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9818
 
This is proving to be a good forum. Please keep us informed if "the regulators start issuing wholesale disciplinary measures sometime around next March." It would love to balance your opinion with those of people like Gary North :-)

This has always been a good forum in my opinion!

Next week the regulatory agencies will be publishing their enforcement guidelines indicating how they are going to proceed. I don't have a clue what's in it but it will definitely be "tough". I'll post a link and some summary when it hits...



To: Bill Ounce who wrote (2607)9/28/1998 9:48:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce  Respond to of 9818
 
Computerworld: Lack of year 2000 data on firms troubling, many say

computerworld.com

...
[Senator] Bennett's fact-finding efforts have been hobbled by a dearth of
information sharing. Requests for year 2000 information from
companies have largely been ignored, and those businesses that are
willing to report on how they are doing usually report that they are
comfortable with their progress. "I have a sense that we're getting an
artificially rosy picture from the witnesses coming before us," he said.



To: Bill Ounce who wrote (2607)9/28/1998 10:07:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9818
 
Rick Cowles Assessment of NERC report
y2ktoday.com

"The bad news is: the data presented in the report, when taken in the context of accepted studies of productivity and large scale project completion, does not support the cautiously optimistic tone of the report."

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"Electric companies can not generate electricity without telecommunications. Telecommunications can not operate without electricity. This is truely a "chicken and egg" scenerio..."