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From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
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Subject: Re: USSR International Computer Club (was: Information on the ICC)
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Date: 20 Jan 89 17:56:37 GMT
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Mr. Will Brady of the Air Force Institute of whatever seems to think
that the export control laws require a strict partitioning between
what is sent to the East and what is not. He seems to forget that (as
I pointed out in another posting, but not as bluntly) that IT DOESN'T
MATTER if news is posted to the Soviet Union or not. If you publish
something freely to the public (i.e. in a journal, newspaper, or
USENET) that is export-controlled, you are in violation of the law.
Period. (unless it is a classified journal.)

Therefore, any activities that will be illegal on USENET under export
control laws after Soviet sites are connected are already illegal. 
Does Mr. Brady have any other arguments against connecting Soviet
sites? Besides his personal dislike of the Soviet system?

				Peter Desnoyers