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Re: Soviet Access to Usenet

#3992
From: bader+@andrew.cm
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 1988 21:48
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lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
> bader+@andrew.cmu.edu (Miles Bader) writes:
> >lvc@cbnews.ATT.COM (Lawrence V. Cipriani) writes:
> >> Would you offer help to someone from the Soviet Union?
> >
> >Yes
>
> Is the word traitor in your vocabulary?

Am I a traitor if I tell a soviet how to get the latest version of
workmangler running on his pc?  If I send him pointers on fast
bitblts?  Who knows, even sending them tips on making good coffee
probably advances the power of Godless Communism...  Will I get the
electric chair?

> >> ...
> >> Soviets is a very tricky business, but one fact is very clear, they
> >> respect military strength.
> >
> >Time to gear up those bomb factories!
>
> What is this, some kind of intelligent response?

No

> Disgusted,

Exactly!

-Miles

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