Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!mailrus!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!bader+ From: bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: I'm pro Russian Message-ID:Date: 29 Nov 88 14:36:20 GMT References: <192@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> <2326@cbnews.ATT.COM> <7961@dasys1.UUCP> <222@twwells.uucp>, <2365@cbnews.ATT.COM> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 15 In-Reply-To: <2365@cbnews.ATT.COM> lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes: > So what will be accomplished with a USENET connection to Moscow University? > I agree that it will mainly transfer some low grade technical information > into the USSR. I agree that it won't make any difference to the KGB or > GRU. What I want is to make life as difficult as possible for anyone living > there so they want to leave or demand real reforms. I'm opposed to anything > that makes the USSR a better place to live. If you don't share this opinion > fine, just be sure to tell it to at least one escapee from the USSR. God forbid that a political system you don't agree with should make it's citizens happy! Aren't you being a bit arrogant, deciding what other people should want? Maybe (just maybe) they have different priorities than you... -Miles