acheng@uiucdcs.UUCP (04/30/84)
#R:tpvax:-24400:uiucdcs:9700085:000:483 uiucdcs!acheng Apr 30 15:30:00 1984 >>I read recently that all 50,000 participants at the '84 games in LA >>will have their own electronic mailing address, comprising the >>largest Local Area Network in the world. They will be using the Unix >>O/S,... I doubt the truth (not finger pointing) of this news. Imagine to teach 50,000 athelets how to logon, read mails, save them, edit files and reply mails. Would they spend time staring at the screens or tuning up their muscles for this once a life chance?
presley@mhuxj.UUCP (Joe Presley) (05/03/84)
Do you suppose Soviet athletes who win medals could get congratulatory messages from kremvax!chernenko :-)? Think how proud they would be to receive a personal message from their glorious leader! -- Joe Presley (mhuxj!presley, ihnp4!j.presley)
dak@ihuxn.UUCP (Dave Krunnfusz) (05/03/84)
<pay no attention to the man behind the curtain> It is indeed true that all athletes will have their own electronic mailbox, although they will be logging into a menu-driven application program and not UN*X. As for access by the Usenet population, it seems highly unlikely. There are too many security and other issues to allow this as far as I am concerned (e.g., Sent to USSR Track Star minutes before the *big* race: Hey Comrade, your mother just died!) Dave K. ..!ihuxn!dak
wm@tekchips.UUCP (05/03/84)
Great! What a subversive plot! Give every athlete from some, unspecified country a UNIX login and instructions on how to access mail, netnews and rogue. After they goof up at the games offer them a pair of blue jeans and all the coke they can drink if they defect. Asbestos, the official warm up suit of netnews, ~ ~ o o ^ wm \_/
barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) (05/04/84)
There is an article about the network being used by the LAOC (Los Angeles Olympic Committee) in the past week's Computerworld. It implied that athletes will be able to get access if they need it. The network is being supplied by AT&T, I think. -- Barry Margolin ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar
brahms@trwspp.UUCP (05/05/84)
> >>I read recently that all 50,000 participants at the '84 games in LA > >>will have their own electronic mailing address, comprising the > >>largest Local Area Network in the world. They will be using the Unix > >>O/S,... > > I doubt the truth (not finger pointing) of this news. Imagine to teach > 50,000 athelets how to logon, read mails, save them, edit files and reply > mails. Would they spend time staring at the screens or tuning up their > muscles for this once a life chance? I heard the same info also. That is, that during the Olympics, messages to athletes would be done by computer. However, if I remember correctly, it is going to be a very specialized system that will be very easy to use for that purpose. Also from memory, it will be used only for receiving messages, NOT sending them. Saves on paper! -- Brad Brahms usenet: {decvax,ucbvax}!trwrb!trwspp!brahms arpa: Brahms@USC-ECLC
goran@erix.UUCP (05/09/84)
>> Great! What a subversive plot! Give every athlete from >> some, unspecified country a UNIX login and instructions on how >> to access mail, netnews and rogue. >> >> After they goof up at the games offer them a pair of blue >> jeans and all the coke they can drink if they defect. OK now we know why the Russians decided not to participate in the Olympics. Are you sure there is no kgbvax out there listening? :-) o o | G|ran B}ge @ L M Ericsson, Stockholm, Sweden \_/