Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!microsoft!w-colinp From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet Message-ID: <1025@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 28 Nov 88 11:36:52 GMT References: <7649@well.UUCP> <8081@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <17651@gatech.edu> <8114@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <268@lloyd.camex.uucp> <2331@cbnews.ATT.COM><2337@cbnews.ATT.COM> Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 26 Confusion: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA This discussion seems to have decided that, if the KGB wants Usenet access, it can very easily get it. For what it's worth, I've talked to people who know first-hand that NSA personnel do, indeed, read Usenet. However, this isn't the sort of connection that is at all interesting. I'd like to get a connection to the students at Moscow University. These people don't have the resources to get a Usenet connection, and may not even know what to ask for, but it would be most enlightening to talk to them. So... who knows of a group of Soviet citizens who have the machines to run Usenet software and would be interested in talking? That's the first step. Then come the technical hurdles of making a reliable communications link. Tangent: In my parents' office, there's a guy working who's a Soviet Citizen. His passport is stamped "Permanently residing in Canada". It freaks out immigration people both sides of the Iron Curtain. Other point: "There's nothing difficult about getting an emigration visa, it just takes time. I applied once. Turned down. Applied again. Denied again. Applied a third time. Granted. The Jews aren't treated any worse than anyone else, they just bitch louder." (I do not vouch for the accuracy of this statement.) -- -Colin (microsof!w-colinp@sun.com)