jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) (09/16/90)
I was talking with Congressman Nagle (3rd District, Iowa), about recent
USENET postings from the Soviet Union, and he asked me to try to document
the extent to which USENET has penetrated behind the old the Iron Curtain.
I am posting this note to an assortment of newsgroups to attempt to assess
readership in the USSR, and eastern Europe. Please, if you are reading
this in the Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic,
or any other nation in eastern Europe, would you please try to send
electronic mail to me.
I would also like to receive postcards to confirm your reading of this
posting, both because the new electronic mail connections may not work
well, and because, in the past, there have been some interesting hoaxes
involving forged electronic mail purportedly from Russia.
I do not regularly read all of the newsgroups where I am posting this,
so I will probably not see publically posted replies. I will distribute
summaries of what I learn from this survey, after about a month.
Douglas W. Jones
Postal address: Associate Professor of Computer Science
University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
USA
Internet address: jones@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (.usa ?)