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From: sandee@sun16.scri.fsu.edu (Daan Sandee)
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Subject: Re: The Russians are coming (welcome!) WAS: How wrong is MS-DOS?
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Date: 17 Jan 91 21:48:11 GMT
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In article <505@holyoke.alc.com> lovejoy@alc.com (Alan Lovejoy) writes:
>In article <1991Jan12.090835.3783@hq.demos.su> avg@hq.demos.su (Vadim Antonov) writes:
>>Vadim Antonov
>>DEMOS, Moscow, USSR
>
>Zdravstvuytye!
>
>I would like to know whether Vadim has an e-mail address?  For that matter,
>what is the state of Internet/USENET connectivity with the Soyuz 
>Sovieticheskikh Sotsiyalichistikh Respublik ("U.S.S.R.").

USSR has 38 sites using uucp, being fed by fuug.fi or funet.fi in
Finland (which is as far as Internet goes). You can get uumap/u.sun.1
by anonymous ftp from uunet.uu.net . Extract of which :
#N      demos demos.su hq.demos.su
#S      Twinhead S600/486; SCO XENIX 2.3.3
#O      Demos Co-operative
#C      Dmitry Volodin
#E      dvv@hq.demos.su
#T      +7 095 231 2129
#P      pod.1 d.6 Ovchinnikovskaya nab., SU-113035 Moscow, USSR
#L      37 35 E / 55 45 N city
#R      USSR EUnet backbone site
#W      ojala@fuug.fi 900813, dvv@dvv.hq.demos.su 901123
and 37 other sites.
>
>Sorry to raise this in what is perhaps the wrong newsgroup, but the posting
>that aroused my curiosity appeared here, and I'm not sure whom to ask, or
>where.
Try comp.unix.misc, to which I have directed followups, or some networking
group.
>
>Oh yeah, what's "DEMOS?"
Vadim explained it once on the net but I forget.
>
>-- 
> %%%% Alan Lovejoy %%%% | "Do not go gentle into that good night,
> % Ascent Logic Corp. % | Old age should burn and rave at the close of the day;
> UUCP:  lovejoy@alc.com | Rage, rage at the dying of the light!" -- Dylan Thomas

Daan Sandee                                           sandee@sun16.scri.fsu.edu
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052  (904) 644-7045