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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: Delays in sending out copies of my multiprocessor bibliography
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Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 16:44:41 EST
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Recently, NASA has been cracking down on the distribution of information
by computer tape.  I would like to offer apologies to those people
who mailed me blank tapes to obtain updates of my multiprocessor/
distributed processing bibliography.  I have a dozen such tapes being
processed from institutions like NYU, Amdahl/Fujitsu, DEC, and the like.
I hope you get them in the next couple of weeks (I will send the most
up-to-date copy).

In the past, we just mailed your tape back to you.  Now, I have to get
four signatures and the tape must be inspected by our Technology
Utilization office.  They want to prevent the dissemination of information
overseas to certain governments.  I believe this is in response to comments
made by the Sec. of the DOD, Mr. Weinberger, about NASA being a big
technology leak to other countries.

ARPAnet FTP is still the best way to get a copy, it's too big to
realistically UUCP.

As an aside, when I began my work, I was asked if I desired to make the
distribution unlimited.  I was informed the standard policy of the US
Government was to delay all foreign distribution 1 year.  I feel this is
a ridculuous policy in this area of research.

From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers:
--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
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