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From: jpr@jpradley.jpr.com (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Modems badly needed in the U.S.S.R
Message-ID: <1991Jan06.010428.3408@jpradley.jpr.com>
Date: 6 Jan 91 01:04:28 GMT
References: <1111100014@cdp> <1991Jan4.192230.26721@beach.csulb.edu> <NAPO.91Jan5233523@elektra.hut.fi>
Reply-To: jpr@jpradley.UUCP (Jean-Pierre Radley)
Organization: NYC Public Unix
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In article <NAPO.91Jan5233523@elektra.hut.fi> napo@niksula.hut.fi (Hannu Napari) writes:
>It seems to me that the posting concering the shortage of modems in the USSR 
>was a fraud. As far as I know, all the news traffic to the USSR goes
>through fuug.fi and they use internet addressing, not UUCP.

Maybe, and maybe not. I tracked down the map listing for the site whence came
the request:

#N	cdp
#S	AT/386; Interactive 2.0.2 (System V Release 3.2)
#O	Community Data Processing (CdP)
#C	Scott Weikart
#E	cdp!postmaster, cdp!scott
#T	+1 415 322 9069
#P	1010 Doyle, #9, Menlo Park, CA 94025
#L	37 33 40 N / 122 15 55 W
#R	EcoNet; PeaceNet; donate unneeded hardware for a tax deduction!
#U	sgi
#W	cdp!scott (Scott Weikart); Wed Jun 13 17:26:02 PDT 1990
#
cdp	hplabs(DIRECT), labrea(DIRECT), sgi(DIRECT),
	pyramid(DIRECT), sobell(DIRECT)

Perhaps some USSRians have a login on cdp?

 Jean-Pierre Radley	    NYC Public Unix	jpr@jpr.com	CIS: 72160,1341