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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: Info request: Olympics on Usenet?
Message-ID: <244@tpvax.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Apr-84 14:13:51 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr 24 14:13:51 1984
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+<take and eat of this for this is my body>+

I read recently that all 50,000 participants at the '84 games in LA
will have their own electronic mailing address, comprising the 
largest Local Area Network in the world. They will be using the Unix
O/S, but there was no mention in the ad (for ATT) whether they would
be connected to this network. Does anyone have any information?

I think it would be pretty keen to send congratulatory (or commiseratory)
messages to the athletes. If it isn't planned yet, does anyone know
if there is any technical reason that it couldn't be? If there are
financial problems, is there anyone who'd like to join in trying to
convince the powers that be at ATT that such a connection would be
desirable?

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