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From: jarmo@tut.FI (Jarmo Sorvari)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: UUCP to RUSSIA
Message-ID: <116@karhu.tut.FI>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 05:58:12 EST
Article-I.D.: karhu.116
Posted: Mon Oct 26 05:58:12 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 31-Oct-87 14:04:50 EST
References: <8710141028.aa02272@toby.cs.bham.ac.uk> <114@karhu.tut.FI> <8710231337.aa13385@toby.cs.bham.ac.uk>
Reply-To: jarmo@karhu.UUCP (Jarmo Sorvari)
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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In article <8710231337.aa13385@toby.cs.bham.ac.uk> BattenIG@CS.BHAM.AC.UK (Ian G Batten) writes:
>>  In article <8710141028.aa02272@toby.cs.bham.ac.uk>, BattenIG@CS.BHAM.AC.UK (I
>>   G Batten) writes:
>>  > I think there are Finish sites on Eunet which would be geographically
>>  > and ideologically suitable.

>>  Hmm... Could you be more specific with your notion on "ideologically
>>  suitable"?  What exactly do you mean?

>As I understand it, Finland has something less of a knee-jerk "Commies!
>Shoot Now!" mentality than elements of the US government --- with rail
>links, for example, it presumably has a rather more normal "this is my
>neighbour" policy than the xenophobes might prefer.  Thus, I assume,

Alright, I'll buy this.  I was worried that you meant quite the contrary by
being ideologically suitable; there is so much ignorance (mainly in the US, I
admit!) about how things are in Finland, that I may have become over-sensitive
about it!

>                                              [Incidently, isn't there
>some trouble that the US State Dept. is trying to stir up over sale of
>computer hardware to Finland?  The usual idiocy..]

None that I know of.  We have never faced any trouble buying state-of-the-art
computer hardware.  If there has been any trouble, it is because some
merchants have been overcautious from sheer ignorance!  We have never had any
trouble buying state-of-the-art computer hardware from the US (I'm writing
this on a Hewlett-Packard 9000/840 RISC machine, published last year).
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