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To: IngotWeTrust who wrote (30518)	3/23/1999 1:08:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116786

'I wouldn't be surprised if the people on this forum had finished 90% of their personal preparations (not counting, of course, the people who occasionally show up on the forum to announce that they're adamantly opposed to the idea!). But my guess is that the people on this forum are representative of only 1-2% of the overall population... The numbers are slowly growing, though. One of the recent Y2K community meetings in my town attracted 5% of the population ... and if they each have a spouse or "significant other" at home, that might well mean that 10% of the population is now listening closely to the Y2K situation. I think it might take only one or two "serious" events to change the mood of the public, and send them all down to the local grocery store en masse. Look how much of a fuss has been made of the NJ food-stamp problem; it's apparently takes up much of the front page of the second section of today's New York Times. And that's just one bug in one system, which affected a mere 180,000 people and potentially cost the state a mere $49 million. Wait until 46 states experience their FY rollover in one swell foop on July 1 ... if we have a dozen or more situations similar to the NJ food-stamp problem, I think you'll find a very strong shift of opinions... Ed -- Ed Yourdon (ed@yourdon.com), March 23, 1999. ' greenspun.com