Please take the precautions you believe are appropriate.
---------------------- Forwarded by Richard B Sanders/HOU/ECT on 12/20/99 
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	Enron North America Corp.
	
	From:  Rick Causey @ ENRON                           12/16/99 06:17 PM
	

Sent by: Enron Announcements@ENRON
To: All Enron Worldwide
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Subject: Important Y2K Computer Precautions

Enron's business unit Y2K teams have done an exceptional job preparing for 
Y2K.  Approximately 3,400 employees and contractors have been involved in 
assessing more than 75,000 systems, 45,000 embedded systems, and 20,000 
external entities.  In addition, more than 2,900 employees and contractors 
will be dedicating some of their time over the millennium weekend to retest 
systems and to ensure continued operations as part of our contingency 
planning program.  

As a final measure, the Corp. Y2K project office recommends that you take the 
following precautions to protect your desktop computers and PC applications:

Make diskette backups of critical documents and data kept locally on your PC.

Consider making printouts of the following:
Staff listings and contact numbers
Internal and external contact lists
Personal calendar details and &to do8 lists for January
Frequently used standard electronic templates and forms

For important business information such as contracts, processes and 
procedures, diagrams, and curves, your Y2K teams are making preparations to 
retain hard copies.  If you are unsure whether this is being done, please 
contact your local Y2K coordinator.

Ensure adequate supplies of paper, toner, and diskettes are stocked prior to 
the last week in December.

Unless specifically told otherwise by your local Y2K team, be sure to do the 
following before leaving the office for the last time in 1999:
 Log off. For most users, follow normal procedures and choose "Close all 
programs and log on as a different user8 when leaving for the night.   
 Leave PC turned on.   
Following these procedures will allow the network teams to download virus 
patches to your PCs over the millennium weekend.  
For many laptop users, or for those in doubt, leave your PCs turned off until 
you return to work and can log in to the network.  If this is not possible, 
be sure to follow the backup procedures recommended above.

After December 31, carefully review output from applications (primarily 
spreadsheets, local database applications, and documents with macros).  We 
have encountered problems with older applications and macros that use hard 
coded two digit years.  Be sure to double check output, and question data 
that does not &seem right.8  

To protect against viruses, e-mail with attachments will be quarantined 
beginning on December 31.  E-mail without attachments will be delivered as 
usual.  Those with low-risk (non-executable) attachments will be delivered 
after a brief delay of approximately 15 minutes. Delivery of e-mail with 
executable attachments (those with the extension ".exe" and possibly ".zip") 
may be delayed indefinitely. Consistent with normal business practices, avoid 
downloading anything from the Internet.

We have done a considerable amount of work preparing for Y2K, and we hope you 
will help minimize any impact the calendar rollover could have on personal 
computer systems.  Thank you for your assistance.