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From: anna@vedge.UUCP (Anna Kochanowska)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Summary: Information exchange
Message-ID: <2220@vedge.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 88 21:03:31 GMT
References: <7649@well.UUCP> <8081@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <5008@brspyr1.BRS.Com> <292@ssp18.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Reply-To: anna@vedge.UUCP (Anna Kochanowska)
Organization: Visual Edge Software, St. Laurent, PQ
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In article <292@ssp18.idca.tds.philips.nl> michiel@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Michiel Fierst van Wijnandsbergen) writes:

>Information exchange is vital for the western world. The USSR has access to
>all of that (they can buy magazines etc. as well as I can).

That would be great! No normal people in USSR have an access to all magazines
etc. that you can buy. Did you forget the "CENZURA", or you never heard of it?
And prices of western magazines are far too high for them.

>      Let's make
>sure we have access to their achievements so we can benifit from it just like
>they do.

You will never have access to their achievenments, because they will be too
afraid to release any to the net. They will ask you all kind of questions,
but you will not even learn what kind of pencils they use.

I am not against their access to the net, but it seems that lot of people
waiting for CONTACT will be disappointed. 

(Do you know that it is forbidden in USSR to make a picture of any post
office, bridge, railway station etc.? You may simply loose your camera
and have a lot of troubles. And you expect people to talk about their
projects, programs and other secrets?!)

-- 
   The views expressed are those of the writer, and not of
    Visual Edge, or of the Usenet.
    A.M.Kochanowska