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From: varol@cwi.nl (Varol Akman)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: UUCP - USSR
Message-ID: <7445@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: Mon, 19-Oct-87 10:34:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: boring.7445
Posted: Mon Oct 19 10:34:00 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 20-Oct-87 05:12:04 EDT
References: <11217@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
Lines: 37
Summary: But they don't deserve it ...
In-Reply-To: <11217@orchid.waterloo.edu>


In article <11217@orchid.waterloo.edu> imprint@orchid.UUCP (U of Waterloo Student Newspaper) writes:
>In response to several items on UUPC to the USSR. . .
>
>............. (lotsa stuff deleted).............
>
>Further, you can be sure that Soviet "agents" can, if they
>want, read everything on Usenet. If any student at this
>university can, any "agent" who wants to can also get
>access. So there is nothing "secret" on Usenet.
>
>Doug Thompson
>!watmath!orchid!imprint
>Fido 221/162
>voice (519-746-5022)

Just the fact that something is available for Russian agents doesn't
imply that Americans should make life easier for them. In an ideal world, 
I would be all for your proposal but I believe that as long as the Russians
continue their dirty aggressions and secret, harmful operations directed
towards the free world, U.S. should try *hard* to make life difficult
for them.  Computer technology/science is one field where Americans
excel and Russians stink.  Why should we let them have a free lunch --
especially when it is obvious that they are going to use this technology
against freedom-loving people all around the globe (including their own
kingdom and the Eastern block)?


Varol Akman, CWI, Amsterdam
varol@cwi.nl

What is an individual?  A very good question.  So good, in fact, that
we should not try to answer it.                          - DANA SCOTT
-- 
Varol Akman, CWI, Amsterdam

What is an individual?  A very good question.  So good, in fact, that
we should not try to answer it.                          - DANA SCOTT