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From: BattenIG@CS.BHAM.AC.UK (Ian G Batten)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: UUCP to RUSSIA
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Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 08:37:09 EST
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>  From:         Jarmo Sorvari <mcvax!enea!tut!jarmo@net.uu.uunet>
>  Subject:      Re: UUCP to RUSSIA

>  To:           info-futures@bu-cs.bu.edu
>
>  In article <8710141028.aa02272@toby.cs.bham.ac.uk>, BattenIG@CS.BHAM.AC.UK (I
>   G Batten) writes:
>  > >  How would we try to do this ?  Could we link through Japan
>  > >  or India or Germany ?
>  > 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,
quietly linking Finnish boxes to Russian boxes with UUCP would cause
less heart-ache than if they were in the US.  [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..]

ian