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From: barry@aurora.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: UUCP - USSR
Message-ID: <1207@aurora.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 27-Oct-87 17:23:00 EST
Article-I.D.: aurora.1207
Posted: Tue Oct 27 17:23:00 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Oct-87 04:57:01 EST
References: <8710200932.AA00888@violet.berkeley.edu> <7213@eddie.MIT.EDU> <15236@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: barry@aurora.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center
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In article <15236@watmath.waterloo.edu> ccplumb@watmath.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) writes:
>In article <7213@eddie.MIT.EDU> zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks) writes:
>>The goal of wider dissemination of information
>>should be met before such an intelligence boon is granted to the
>>Soviets.
>
>Really now, "intelligence boon"?  We'd probably drive a few KGB types
>insane if they tried to follow Mark Ethan Smith, alt.flame, Matthew
>Wiener, soc.women, Gene Ward Smith, talk.religion.newage, Tim Maroney,
>or other well-known sources of content-free grammar [:-)].

	You said it. I suspect John Gilmore was right when he suggested
that the Sovs get Usenet already, as a side effect of their monitoring
US communications. Anybody wanna bet they already have a filter in
place to throw *away* Usenet stuff? The biggest headache in blanket
electronic espionage is filtering out all the useless garbage. Making
some poor human sift through Usenet for useful intelligence would have
to be the KGB's electronic equivalent of exile to Siberia :-).

						Kenn Barry
						NASA-Ames Research Center
						Moffett Field, CA
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