Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!isishq!doug
From: doug@isishq.UUCP (Doug Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: UUCP to USSR?
Message-ID: <1.224F2D08@isishq.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 88 04:33:52 GMT
Organization: FidoNet node 221/162 - ISIS International, Waterloo ON
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 UN>why 
 UN>a) it is going on. Is somebody from USSR requesting for connection? 
 UN>IF NOT, WHY 
 UN>   BOTHER? As far as I know, new sites connects to the net, not 
 UN>vice versa. Have 
 UN>   anybody even asked them if they want to connect to the net? 
 
Well -- yes -- and sort of -- and why bother? Well, why not? And 
remember, the net is only so many machines, with so many owners and so 
many administrators. Sometimes one or another of us gets these strange 
urges :-) 
 
For the most part Soviets don't even know about "the net". Once we do 
get them linked it is bound to get **very** interesting :-) 
 
 
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