ITALY MOSTLY IGNORING THE MILLENNIUM COMPUTER BUG May 15, 1999 The London Telegraph reported Friday: Officials given the task of ridding Italy of the millennium bug issued a warning yesterday that, with just over seven months to the deadline, a promised #2 million budget had yet to be approved by parliament - and they still had no powers to force companies and government departments to comply. The report quoted Italys Y2K expert on its Year 2000 committee as saying, "Italy is going to crash, and we are going to be crucified. We are supposed to make things go so smoothly that nobody would realize there was ever a problem. Instead we will be the scapegoats. We have only consultative powers, and no one is listening to us." The report also quoted Roberto Di Martino, a computer software expert on the committee, as saying, "even now no executive wants to tell his company they have to spend both time and money on this". The Times said that Italy has just now begun broadcasting radio advertisements explain what the millennium bug is. It said that one survey showed that only 2% of Italians have even heard of the Y2K computer problem

-- Johnny (jljtm@bellsouth.net), May 17, 1999

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"Italy is going to crash, and we are going to be crucified."

I think that says it all!

-- Johnny (jljtm@bellsouth.net), May 17, 1999.

THIS IS THE THIRD THREAD ON THE SAME ARTICLE!

-- Tired of threads (--@--.--), May 17, 1999.

oh,dear,redundancy on the internet.posted more than once.over and over.not needed.not at all.no.no.no.

-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), May 17, 1999.

I'm not surprised at the redundancy here. At the moment (1:07 AM May 18) the earliest threads listed on the New Questions page are from May 16th. Anything earlier has disappeared into the archives, classified in chronological order under 24 subject headings. Each thread is initially assigned a subject heading, known only to the thread's initiator. Short of reviewing the 24 categorized lists in order, opening each thread under that topic in turn, then scanning every post in the thread, the archives remain a black hole with respect to recovering a remembered thread.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), May 18, 1999.

Try again. Hope that worked.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), May 18, 1999.