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From: bill@sigma.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Scary Thought ...
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Date: Mon, 9-Mar-87 12:10:25 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  9 12:10:25 1987
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In article <1112@altnet.UUCP> edc@altnet.UUCP (Eric D. Christensen) writes:
>[...] I think that these issues need to be discussed. I would hate to see
>PCs banned from the net. Equal access is one of the fundamental principals
>of the net, but I'm afraid that a VAX is a bit more equal then a PC-XT in
>this case. [...]

How would we kick PCs off the net? There's nothing to identify a particular
system's type - other than what the owner allows to be known. It's not a 
problem of software: I have already had my (dare I say it?) CP/M machine
converse with our Vax via a UUCP-clone*, and have sketched out a relatively
crude but useable news system. I'm not sure what the "equality" relationship
mentioned really is..

Bill Swan

(* Don't ask for it.. it's far from ready for release. Besides, I'm working
on "uuslave" now; well, as soon as I fix my C compiler, I mean :-)
-- 
William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!sigma!bill

The NRO cryptography terrorist uses CIA drugs and
likes to decode secret NSA and DES cipher codes.