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>
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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.
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