John Korb said...

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> *  Shortly after receiving Alan's message I emailed a few friends and
>    called one who I know doesn't read his email.  The results were:
>
>    *  The friend I called said that he had not attended the BWRUG
meeting.
>       The reason?  "Until the Y2K effort is closed out, none of us
will
>       be attending seminars, conferences, conventions, or training."

Well that is one thing I can say wasn't a problem for any of our staff
that attendend.  We are big enough that our networking people are
seperate from our applications development folks.  And we are done with
our Y2K applications too!!!!!!!!!!!!


>
>    *  The first and second emails I received were similar to the phone
>       call.  No meetings or special privileges until Y2K is complete.
>
>    *  An email from another friend yielded "Oh yeah, that looked
>       interesting. I meant to attend but I just got busy and forgot."

I didn't receive (or missed it), the announcment.  If I had not seen it
on a co-workers desk, I would have not known about it either.
>
>    *  The fourth replied that his office is shorthanded and he can't
>       afford to take time out for seminars at present.

Par for the course many days for me.  I just thought this one was worth
it and the price was right.  And it was!
>
>    *  The fifth didn't respond - and I know why - he changed jobs
recently
>       and I sent the email to his old email address (oops!)

Oh well....


> Keeping in mind that the Washington DC area is heavily involved in
> government contracting, and the government is way, way, way behind on
its
> Y2K efforts (some say the government will be Y2K compliant in 2007),
> perhaps some people are too busy to attend.

Ok, I guess that means I won't have to pay taxes for seven years? <grin>



> Rather than getting on another general-distribution listserv, I'd
rather
> see a BWRUG emailing list that sends out meeting announcements three
weeks,
> then two weeks, then one week before the meeting.  Perhaps the email
would
> jog the memory of those that simply "forget" while costing the RUG
minimal
> expense.  I don't think most RUGs could justify setting up their own
> listserv, but a mailing list should be within their capabilities.


As I understand this, the listserv is handled by Interex and would be
for each individual RUG, so there isn't the cost factor.  And since it
is just for the RUG, I would think it would (or we could ask) be limited
to meeting announcments and very little other traffic.

Is that right Nick?

/alan

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P. S. One last comment about Y2K interferring with meetings/seminars.  I
think  HP World is supposed to be the largest yet, so I don't quite know
how all of the Y2K stuff fits in.