Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!xenitec!zswamp!root
From: root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Modems badly needed in the U.S.S.R
Message-ID: <6598.2788009F@zswamp.fidonet.org>
Date: Sun, 06 Jan 91 16:34:42 EST
Organization: Izot's Swamp BBS - Kitchener, Ontario

Hannu Napari (napo@niksula.hut.fi ) wrote:

 >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.

   I recognized the hostname in the posting (cdp.UUCP) and I
believe that the postings may have been genuine.

   I do not wish to make any political statement, but am unsure
how to phrase this diplomatically: if I remember correctly, cdp
is a liberal organization involved in bringing computing to the
people, or something like that - sorry if I'm offbase on that!

   Anyways, I would not be at all surprised to find them involved
in some project which would bring modems to the Soviet Union.

   Geoff

DISCLAIMER: I cannot stress sufficiently that this info is off the
top of my head and more poorly worded than anything else I've ever
written.  I apologize in advance for any offense taken, it was purely 
unintentional and the result of nothing more sinister than criminal
clumsiness! 

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