crunch@well.UUCP (John Draper) (02/21/89)
My comments on the NY Times article: Gabe Wiener writes: >There was a front page article in the times this morning about a new data >link to the soviet union. There were several mentions that computer hobbyists >were among those making use of the new network. >Would anyone know how hobbyists are accessing this network? I'm interested >in getting information. There are a number of UUCP sites in the Bay area that get UseNet news feeds such as Portal, WELL, and a number of other sites that have public access. Also, I have heard of a number of "Hobbyists" who maintain UUCP sites. Were you referring to some OTHER network?? Zhenqin Li writes: >It is interesting that the recent debate about computer link to USSR >on comp.misc has been reported on the front page of today (February 19)'s >"The New York Times". This doesn't surprise me, John Markhoff has been reading Net News for years. He called me up a week ago, told me about an article he was going to write, and that he saw the discussion on UseNet. I told him I didn't think it was such a good idea to write about UseNet.