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From: perry@MCL.UNISYS.COM (Dennis Perry)
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Subject: Re:  netnews gatewaying
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Date: 5 Jun 90 10:10:43 GMT
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	Date: Mon, 4 Jun 90 12:49:31 EDT
	From: jas@proteon.com (John A. Shriver)
 	
	My concern, which I may not have made clear enough, is that the US
	Government is potentially watching us.  If they don't like what is
	being done with the money the subsidize the Internet with, they might
	cut it off.  We live in a glass house, as Barry noted.  The fellow
	with the *big* rock is in Washington, D.C., not some hacker.
	
I might illustrate the above point with a true example from my experience
while I was at DARPA 'responsible' for the Arpanet.  It seems that a note
was posted to a netnews list.  The note requested that those interested 
in helping a certain central american country to volunteer their services.
Well, the help requested was for the side of the controversy that the U.S.
government was not interested in helping, at the time.  This note was
picked up by a distribution list on the Arpanet and was eventually collected
and read by certain people located in a certain place.  I was shortly
thereafter contacted by the DOD Inspector General's Office in the Pentagon.
There inital concern was to shut down the Arpanet.  After a more logical
discussion, a course of action was identified which amounted to an
educational experience for the person posting the note and the institution
passing the note on to the Arpanet.

The above details may not be totally correct, since this happened about
four years ago now, and I try not to remember the things that are unpleasant
in my life.

dennis