Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!steven From: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: An American invented the phone, thus this is an American net Message-ID: <6230@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 21:20:50 EST Article-I.D.: mcvax.6230 Posted: Sat Dec 8 21:20:50 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 03:10:31 EST References: <6166@mcvax.UUCP> <270@spp2.UUCP> <127@talcott.UUCP> <692@erix.UUCP> <146@talcott.UUCP> <6217@mcvax.UUCP> <173@talcott.UUCP> Reply-To: steven@mcvax.UUCP (Steven Pemberton) Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 18 gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg J Kuperberg) wrote: > Remember, this is an American network that your posting to. to which I (amongst others) replied: > No it's not. To which he replied: > Ok, how many UUCP hosts are there? And how many of them are in the U.S.? > And where was UUCP started anyway? And where was Unix invented? And > the vax? And the silicon chip? And the telephone? And who discovered electricity? And who developed the English language?? And who discovered America in the first place??? And what a blind bit of difference does it make anyway? How many nations are there on the net? And how many of them are the USA? Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@mcvax