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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
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Posted: Sat Dec  8 21:20:50 1984
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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
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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