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From: jpdres10@usl-pc.usl.edu (Green Eric Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Summary: Information exchange
Message-ID: <155@usl-pc.usl.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 88 07:00:48 GMT
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In message <2220@vedge.UUCP>, anna@vedge.UUCP (Anna Kochanowska) says:
>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.

But I doubt that their professors have any trouble getting copies of
Western academic journals. 

>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.

Sure we will. Not to any achievements related to the military,
obviously, but the Russians are quite eager to broadcast their
accomplishments all across the world. Good PR, y'know... "Our shuttle
is bigger than your shuttle, we've published more algorithms than you
have, ....". Now, I agree that nothing of earth-shaking importance is
likely to get out, but that's another topic altogether.

>    A.M.Kochanowska

As a Southern conservative, I'm about as pessimistic about the Soviet
government as most folks, but c'mon, there's a difference between
being on your guard, and hysterical paranoia!

--
Eric Lee Green                            P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509
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