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From: rhealey@ub.d.umn.edu (Rob Healey)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Seeking Soviet Readership
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Date: 18 Sep 90 15:57:33 GMT
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In article <2350@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
>
>I was talking with Congressman Nagle (3rd District, Iowa), about recent
>USENET postings from the Soviet Union, and he asked me to try to document
>the extent to which USENET has penetrated behind the old the Iron Curtain.
>
	Hmmmm, I'm getting a little red flag here, no pun intended. I
	would be EXTREMELY wary of the Congressman's TRUE motives
	for wanting to know this information. i.e. this could give
	congress the poke that is needed to SHUT DOWN usenet type
	communications for that ALL IMPORTANT


		"National Security"


      Don't laugh. If information can flow from east->west, it
      can flow west->east. Some in congress would no doubt see this
      as a threat to western security. They COULD make having a
      USENET connection outside of the US a federal crime.

      PLEASE think about this seriously because I'm sure there are
      those who don't see USENET as a force for democratic change but as a
      security leak. B^(.

	Very cautiously,

		-Rob