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From: rroot@edm.UUCP (Stephen Samuel)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Message-ID: <5068@edm.UUCP>
Date: 13 Dec 88 03:26:48 GMT
References: <1119@arctic.nprdc.arpa>
Organization: Unexsys Systems Inc., Edmonton,AB.
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From article <1119@arctic.nprdc.arpa>, by greg@nprdc.arpa (Greg Reynolds):
> In article <948@vsi.COM> friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:

> << As someone else here pointed out, we do not need any more KGB access to 
> << this or any other net.  It simply makes their intelligence gathering
> << that much easier.  
> <
> <How does anybody know that the Soviets aren't polling (say) my
> <machine?  There are so many machines in the world, with so many
I hear that there is a machine in Moscow, Idaho that, once a week, sends an
archive-format 60meg tape to the local russian embasy.  Nothing really 
IMPORTANT, I understand.. Just usenet stuff.
 (-: I mean, HEY, why not?? :-)
Of course, If you believe this, I have a mall to sell you -- I'll even consider
relocation costs..!
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Stephen Samuel 	  (userzxcv@ualtamts.bitnet   or  alberta!edm!steve)
(Only in Canada, you say??.... Pity!)