Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!enea!tut!hmj
From: hmj@tut.fi (Matti J{rvinen)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: UUCP to USSR?
Message-ID: <2893@kuukkeli.tut.fi>
Date: 25 Mar 88 07:28:26 GMT
References: <8803171554.AA01166@martin-den.ARPA>
Organization: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
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I've followed this UUCP-USSR discussion and I do not understand why
a) it is going on. Is somebody from USSR requesting for connection? IF NOT, WHY
   BOTHER? As far as I know, new sites connects to the net, not vice versa. Have
   anybody even asked them if they want to connect to the net?
b) if they want to connect, why should anybody prohibit it? Certainly you cannot speak
   about free world, if some people are restriced from the net because of their
   nationality (not all of them are communists and even if they were, so what?).
   There are not any kind of national secrets going on the net. (And if there are,
   those sending secrets around the world should be arrested anyway.)

Lastly, some areas of USSR are reachable by automatic phone calls, some are not.
-- 
Hannu-Matti Jarvinen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland
hmj@tut.fi, hmj@tut.uucp, hmj@tut.funet (tut.ARPA is not the same computer).