Seems a reasonable precaution to me.

Karl Wolz

----- Original Message -----
From: Davidson <wdavidson@THEGRID.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 5:00 PM
Subject: Millenium Viruses

> Here's a thought to kick around:
> I read in the Wall Street Journal today that the bigger concern (bigger
than
> the millenium date bug) for January 1, 2000 is the potential for computer
> viruses that are triggered by the turn of the millenium. Seems that there
> are those who would like to create havoc to start off the new millenium.
> Software companies that specialize in hunting down and fixing viruses have
> already found hundreds of them set to go off at midnight, and they expect
> there are possibly hundreds that they have not found. Many of these
viruses
> are created to mimic the Y2K date bug so as to make them harder to solve
> (and give them longer to do their damage). Several large companies are
> shutting down their email systems for the weekend.
> So my thought is this:
> It seems that it might be prudent for the list administrator to shut the
> list down sometime on the 31st. Then on the weekend he could check for
> viruses before allowing the server to send us email. So what do you guys
> think?
> Bill
>