Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!apple!desnoyer
From: desnoyer@Apple.COM (Peter Desnoyers)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Soviet Access to Usenet
Message-ID: <21389@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 29 Nov 88 16:51:56 GMT
References: <7649@well.UUCP> <8081@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <266@sunfs3.camex.uucp> <2680@sultra.UUCP>
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In article <2680@sultra.UUCP> dtynan@sultra.UUCP (Der Tynan) writes:
>
>In the first place, anyone with a security clearance can forget sending
>electronic mail to a 'designated country'.  Talking to citizens of these
>countries requires extensive briefing and debriefing.  

This should not be an argument for limiting access to Usenet. It is
the responsibility of the person with a clearance to monitor their
actions. For them to expect us to is irresponsible.

> [supports soviet usenet access, but is dubious of legality]
>So, I allow a Soviet site to poll my machine (or vice versa),
>then one day, some unnamed US agency decides that this is a *major* problem.
>So, they dispatch half-a-dozen agents, who confiscate every piece of
>computing gear I own, and revoke my permanent residency status.

I would suggest that the gateway be operated by someone residing in
the U.S. who is an American-born citizen. It should also be someone
who doesn't use drugs, cheat on their taxes, associate with any groups
left of the John Birch society... 1/2 :-)

[note - that unnamed US agency would be the CIA. The NSA just listens,
and the FBI is restricted by law and constitution. CIA operations in
this country are illegal to begin with, so they are really not
restricted in any way, as far as I know.]

				Peter Desnoyers