Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unisoft!mtxinu!taniwha!paul
From: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Message-ID: <223@taniwha.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 88 19:38:40 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>
Reply-To: paul@taniwha.UUCP (Paul Campbell)
Organization: Taniwha Systems Design, Oakland
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In article <2331@cbnews.ATT.COM> lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
>The best (peaceful) way to get the Soviets to change their ways is economic.
>If they waste their resources on the military then their consumer economy will
>suffer.  Over time, Soviet citizens will demand reform; this seems to be
>happening now. 

"The best (peaceful) way to get the U.S.A. to change its ways is economic.
If it wastes its resources on the military then its consumer economy will
suffer.  Over time, U.S.  citizens will demand reform; this seems to be
happening now."

I changed the names and faces ... isn't this amazingly relavent at the moment
where the country is facing a massive deficit which may be about to cause
a recession - it's being caused by rising military spending coupled with
a lowered tax base. Even now there are lots of rumbling from DC about cutting
the defense budget. Of course the U.S government tends to be much more
responsive to the 'consumer economy' than the Soviet one ... for the obvious
reasons.

>USENET is uncontrollable and anarchic in the free world, I believe
>it could be controlled in the SU.  Every international phone call that
>connects to the SU is recorded, the same can be done with USENET.  Persons
>that post an illegal message would get a visit from a "moderator" and
>be educated on the proper use of USENET.

What makes you think that Usenet isn't recorded by someone at the NSA and
run through keyword searches for words like CIA, NSA, Soviet etc ....
of course all of us in this discussion  have our names and net addresses in
a database somewhere :-) (someone somewhere in Virginia is probably smiling
now ... :-)

	Paul


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