Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!sunfs3!geoff From: geoff@sunfs3.camex.uucp (Geoffrey Knauth) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet Message-ID: <269@sunfs3.camex.uucp> Date: 27 Nov 88 22:01:03 GMT References: <7649@well.UUCP> <8081@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <17651@gatech.edu> <8114@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <268@lloyd.camex.uucp> Reply-To: geoff@sunfs3.UUCP (Geoffrey Knauth) Distribution: na Organization: Camex, Inc., Boston, Mass USA Lines: 16 In article <268@lloyd.camex.uucp> kent@lloyd.UUCP (Kent Borg) writes: >Saving time: So what. I don't see things on the net that are that >time-critical... > >Saving money: Why are we so posessed with the notion that it is in our >interest to try to get the Soviets to waste their money? Why are we >bent on this notion that economic warfare is good? Saving time and money are central to the debate. There are a lot of people who are upset that the Soviets may have copied significant portions of the U.S. Space Shuttle, for example. -- Geoffrey S. Knauth ARPA: geoff%lloyd@husc6.harvard.edu Camex, Inc. UUCP: geoff@lloyd.uucp or husc6!lloyd!geoff 75 Kneeland St., Boston, MA 02111 Tel: (617)426-3577 Fax: 426-9285 I do not speak for Camex.