Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!infopro!david
From: david@infopro.UUCP (David Fiedler)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: How to eliminate the cost of over 1/5 (or more) of net traffic
Message-ID: <36@infopro.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 88 07:07:27 GMT
References: <8650@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: Where the hell is Rescue, California?
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From article <8650@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>, by cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Charles Daffinger):
>In article <44308@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes:
>>uunet already sends a weekly tape (full news feed) to South Korea,
>>Indonesia and the FBI.
>                    ^^^---- do they read it, or do they study it? --or-- should
>                            the fodder for the NSA line-eater really be fodder 
>                            for the FBI line-eater?

My guess is that they want to read it, but they don't want the security
problems of a UUCP hookup. Can you imagine what would happen if some
hacker got into their system?

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