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  Re: Good Luck everyone
 
(...) I agree (and so far evidence does too). But in a lot of cases, it's not because the whole thing was a hoax, as some will now have you believe, but because a lot of people did a lot of work getting systems up to date. (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Good Luck everyone
 
(...) Yes! And thank you(us?) each and every one. However, I am in agreement with the quoted stat that says most of the Y2K problems will not occur tomorrow (today in some places, Happy all digits rolled year to our Kiwi and Strine friends) but (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Good Luck everyone
 
(...) Yeah, it better be compliant. That has got to be one of the funniest sites I've seen in a long time. Keep it coming, Matt! (...) LOL! I like that one :) -Tim (URL) timcourtne ICQ: 23951114 (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Keep Quotes'r'Us running! (was: Re: Good Luck everyone)
 
(...) Yep, it's basically the only e-mail I'm getting - helps me feel not-so-useless ;-) Don't let it stop - It's the best! (...) Me too... (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Good Luck everyone
 
(...) IT, or something between IT and me, or ME, is/are not quite right. Here's the header I received for today's quote. Subject: QRU QOTD for 1 January, 2000 Date: Sat, 1 Jan 100 02:50:01 -0500 (EST) From: qru-qotd@kagomi.com Reply-To: (...) (25 years ago, 1-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Good Luck everyone
 
(...) Well, since you quoted it here, it looks like you recieved *two* quotes today instead of one. If you consider that "100" quotable, that is. LFB (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Good Luck everyone
 
(...) :) Well, as you discovered, we're sending out messages dated in the year 100. (Should be fixed tonight.) The problem is that for no particularly good reason, we're piping the outgoing message through elm's send-file feature, rather than direct (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Good Luck everyone
 
(...) :) Thanks, I'm glad you like it. It _really_ needs some updating; one of my new year's resolutions should be to put in some serious overhaul work. (Hall of Fame hasn't been updated in years, and we're several thousand quotes behind on the (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Good Luck everyone
 
(...) works fine. (...) This is arguably my fault too, in that it means some of the software on the machine didn't get updated, but oh well, at least it's non-fatal. (25 years ago, 2-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Keep Quotes'r'Us running! (was: Re: Good Luck everyone)
 
(...) Heh. Well I haven't subscribed via email because I get too much and it would be just another piece of delete-key-clutter. But I do visit the site on occasion for laughs. Which reminds me, I gotta unsubscribe to the lugnet groups by mail if I'm (...) (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Keep Quotes'r'Us running! (was: Re: Good Luck everyone)
 
(...) Thanks, y'all. We appreciate the support. (25 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Good Luck everyone
 
(...) Famous last words there, -OR- KER-BOOOOM!!! :) Jeff "I will not be gored... by any old demon sword!" (25 years ago, 4-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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