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Please take the precautions you believe are appropriate.
---------------------- Forwarded by Richard B Sanders/HOU/ECT on 12/20/99= =20 11:19 AM --------------------------- =20 =09Enron North America Corp. =09 =09From: Rick Causey @ ENRON 12/16/99 06:17 PM =09 Sent by: Enron Announcements@ENRON To: All Enron Worldwide cc: =20 Subject: Important Y2K Computer Precautions Enron's business unit Y2K teams have done an exceptional job preparing for= =20 Y2K. Approximately 3,400 employees and contractors have been involved in= =20 assessing more than 75,000 systems, 45,000 embedded systems, and 20,000=20 external entities. In addition, more than 2,900 employees and contractors= =20 will be dedicating some of their time over the millennium weekend to retest= =20 systems and to ensure continued operations as part of our contingency=20 planning program. =20 As a final measure, the Corp. Y2K project office recommends that you take t= he=20 following precautions to protect your desktop computers and PC applications= : Make diskette backups of critical documents and data kept locally on your P= C. Consider making printouts of the following: Staff listings and contact numbers Internal and external contact lists Personal calendar details and =01&to do=018 lists for January Frequently used standard electronic templates and forms For important business information such as contracts, processes and=20 procedures, diagrams, and curves, your Y2K teams are making preparations to= =20 retain hard copies. If you are unsure whether this is being done, please= =20 contact your local Y2K coordinator. Ensure adequate supplies of paper, toner, and diskettes are stocked prior t= o=20 the last week in December. Unless specifically told otherwise by your local Y2K team, be sure to do th= e=20 following before leaving the office for the last time in 1999: Log off. For most users, follow normal procedures and choose "Close all=20 programs and log on as a different user=018 when leaving for the night. = =20 Leave PC turned on. =20 Following these procedures will allow the network teams to download virus= =20 patches to your PCs over the millennium weekend. =20 For many laptop users, or for those in doubt, leave your PCs turned off unt= il=20 you return to work and can log in to the network. If this is not possible,= =20 be sure to follow the backup procedures recommended above. After December 31, carefully review output from applications (primarily=20 spreadsheets, local database applications, and documents with macros). We= =20 have encountered problems with older applications and macros that use hard= =20 coded two digit years. Be sure to double check output, and question data= =20 that does not =01&seem right.=018 =20 To protect against viruses, e-mail with attachments will be quarantined=20 beginning on December 31. E-mail without attachments will be delivered as= =20 usual. Those with low-risk (non-executable) attachments will be delivered= =20 after a brief delay of approximately 15 minutes. Delivery of e-mail with=20 executable attachments (those with the extension ".exe" and possibly ".zip"= )=20 may be delayed indefinitely. Consistent with normal business practices, avo= id=20 downloading anything from the Internet. We have done a considerable amount of work preparing for Y2K, and we hope y= ou=20 will help minimize any impact the calendar rollover could have on personal= =20 computer systems. Thank you for your assistance.=20
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