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From: michiel@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Michiel Fierst van Wijnandsbergen)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Re Soviets
Message-ID: <248@ssp18.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 14 Nov 88 21:16:07 GMT
References: <7611@well.UUCP> <7590@dasys1.UUCP>
Followup-To: talk.politics.soviet
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In article <7590@dasys1.UUCP> tneff@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Neff) writes:
>I haven't seen any of the Crunch-man's prior postings on a USSR gateway,
>but boy would it be fantastic.  John ought to have a blast pioneering it,
>only so long as the Sovs don't get hold of his curriculum vitae!  :-)
>
>The initial process of ceremonial howdys etc. would work will in comp.misc
>or any of the other general purpose newsgroups.  I would hope, though,
>that if the gateway is "real" something could be done to segregate by
>subject.  I'm sure our Sov counterparts have oodles of questions about
>how to get their decadent Western PCs to run.  Of course then the
>State Dept. might come down on us like a ton of bricks for technology
>transfer.  That's why it's so good to have John out there in front! :-)

Isn't this a bit overdone? I am sure the soviets have been reading the
net for years. It might not be generally available in the USSR, but
they surely have access to it.

Soviet intelligence wouldn't be worth much if they couldn't get into
an open network like this. And it must mean a lot to them too, because
it contains very useful information about an industry in which they are
clearly behind.

Coming to think of it: are they behind that much?

Followups to talk.politics.soviet.

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