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From: bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield)
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Subject: Re: Soviet Unix User Group
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Date: 27 Sep 90 20:36:43 GMT
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In-Reply-To: moconnor@mars.acs.oakland.edu's message of 27 Sep 90 11:12:55 GMT

In article <3168@vela.acs.oakland.edu> moconnor@mars.acs.oakland.edu (Mike O'Connor) writes:
   In article <1990Sep26.183130.8473@kth.se> perand@admin.kth.se (Per Andersson) writes:
      One of the few countries that won't participate (yet) is UK...
      Maybe we will see well connected Soviet sites before English ?

   Any particular reason why the U.K. is not in the Internet yet?

Their national networking infrastructure was built before it was clear
to them that the TCP/IP suite would become as pervasive as it has.
They use their own "Coloured Book" protocol suite, with application
gateways for (e.g.) mail and news.

This was recently discussed, quite heatedly, in comp.protocols.tcp-ip.
I doubt that more flames here would help anyone at all.