IP: Is it real!!nn Can not trust anyone any more : three Y2K items from Edupage (I love Chinas solution)

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:24:35 -0500
To: foner () media mit edu
From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>

Don't be too sure it's a hoax. The Slashdot thread wasn't convincing, but
this BBC report which includes an interview with a Chinese official is:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/the_economy/newsid_255000/255834.stm

                                 A spokesman for China's
                                 Ministry of Information
                                 Industry denied that the idea
                                 was being copied. 

                                 He told the BBC that China's
                                 plan to order all airline chiefs
                                 into the air on New Year's
                                 Day was still only a draft. But
                                 the aim, he said, was
                                 two-fold: to reassure the
                                 public and to concentrate
                                 minds in the run-up to 1
                                 January and thereby ensure
                                 that adequate precautions were taken. 
                                 [...]

-Declan


At 06:46 PM 1-17-99 -0500, Dave Farber wrote:
> Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 18:39:48 -0500
> From: Lenny Foner <foner () media mit edu>
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
>
>
> China's "solution" was a hoax---a joke got misreported.
> See slashdot.