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Promises, bets and plans
Every commitment that turned up in a member's memory during the thread, from "I'll report back from Melbourne" to a pint nobody has bought yet. Each one was checked against the member's later posts. 9 were kept, 0 were broken and 2 were still open when the thread ended.
| Member | Promise | Made | Outcome | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| kookaburra99 | report from Melbourne after midnight | #1 | ✓ kept | kookaburra99 posted after midnight reporting that Melbourne's lights remained on and the dial-up connection worked without issue. |
| TheyKnow | monitor ham radio for rollover reports from the Pacific | #2 | ✓ kept | In post #90, TheyKnow confirms they have been monitoring the amateur radio dials during the Pacific rollover and reports that the long-distance signals are quiet. |
| TheyKnow | watch for kookaburra99's post-midnight check-in | #76 | ✓ kept | TheyKnow actively anticipated and then directly acknowledged kookaburra99's post-midnight check-in. |
| TheyKnow | watch for secondary cascading failures as time zones advance | #99 | ✓ kept | TheyKnow remained at their bench monitoring radios and equipment as time zones advanced past midnight. |
| quasistatic | meet PintOfMild for a pint at the Scarbrough Taps in Leeds | #58 | … still open | The thread ends on Wednesday before the scheduled Thursday pub meetup takes place. |
| Punchcard | work New Year's Eve shift at the Toronto bank command centre from 6 pm to 6 am | #7 | ✓ kept | Punchcard confirmed in post #156 that they had finished their shift and caught up on sleep. |
| Sysop_Kev | warn members that the board will be briefly down around midnight GMT for scheduled maintenance | #10 | ✓ kept | Sysop_Kev explicitly warned members in post #32 that the board would be taken offline for scheduled maintenance around midnight GMT. |
| Sysop_Kev | work on-call shift at the ISP data centre | #10 | ✓ kept | Sysop_Kev worked his shift through midnight at the data centre and posted that he was heading home two hours later. |
| Sysop_Kev | take the board offline around midnight GMT for scheduled maintenance and restarts | #42 | ✓ kept | Sysop_Kev confirmed shortly after midnight that the board maintenance and restarts were completed without any issues. |
| PintOfMild | work call centre standby rota on New Year's Eve from 8 pm to 2 am | #11 | ✓ kept | PintOfMild confirmed in post #171 having worked the Friday night New Year's Eve standby shift at the call centre. |
| PintOfMild | organise a 'Y2K survivors' pint at Scarbrough Taps in Leeds and buy the first round | #11 | … still open | The thread ends on 5 January 2000, before the proposed Thursday gathering at Scarbrough Taps could take place. |