Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site imsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!elsie!imsvax!djw From: djw@imsvax.UUCP (Donald Whytock) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.unix-wizards,net.usenix,net.unix Subject: Re: Government interferes with USENET? Message-ID: <260@imsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 10:56:26 EST Article-I.D.: imsvax.260 Posted: Mon Nov 5 10:56:26 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Nov-84 08:44:11 EST References: <5118@duke.UUCP> Organization: IMS Inc, Rockville MD Lines: 20 Xref: godot net.followup:1337 net.unix-wizards:3488 net.usenix:75 net.unix:1901 To a certain degree, I can see their point. After all, USENET DOES stretch from Frisco to Australia, going the long way. It makes a certain amount of sense that the government would want to restrict some of the flow of research data, much of which is government-funded, from travelling by word-of-electronic mouth all around the equator. There is a sense of it being almost TOO easy to post information worldwide. ("Hey, Amsterdam, wanna buy a '69 Chevy?") However, perhaps there are better methods than curtailing the net as a whole. Things which are not fit for academic exchanges over conventional channels (tech journals, exchange programs, mail, etc.) are probably not fit for USENET either; therefore, perhaps, limiting the spread of information can be performed at the individual net-site (which, after all, is easier than policing the net). Alternately, it may be time to lobby for changes to the Department of Commerce's list, in view of what is now worldwide public knowledge. Has anyone got a copy of the list that can be posted? Don Whytock ...!allegra!umcp-cs!eneevax!imsvax!djw