[2452] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Moscow on the Internet - Let's Make it happen!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve M. Mansfield)
Sat Feb 29 11:27:35 1992
From: smm@uunet.uu.net (Steve M. Mansfield)
To: cook@tmn.com (Gordon Cook)
Date: Sat, 29 Feb 92 11:25:07 EST
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9202281915.AA28929@tmn.com>; from "Gordon Cook" at Feb 28, 92 7:15 pm
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> To the best of my knowledge there is no live internet node there. I am
I don't know if it still exists or not (I blieve it does) but I used to send
e-mail to a programmer at hq.demos.su . He now works in the US, but I
believe they are still around over there. Plus if you check out various
newsgroups I think you'll discover a few ex-soviets lurking around out there
being social with the rest of the world.
> going to spend 11 days in Moscow early in april. During this time I
Dress warm. 8-)
> intend to do a survey of the networking situation in moscow. I will be
> staying with a Russian physicist who even now is setting up a schedule and
> interviews with the people running networks and people who are planning
> new networks.
Sounds good. The only drawback I can forsee is cost. I seriously don't
know what kind of networking they can afford over there. I was studying
over there last summer, and the money situation over there is pretty bad.
>
> I intend to come back with all the information I possible can about the
> network scene, because I think it is high time that Moscow goes live on
> the internet and as a Russian historian turned networker if I could help
> in getting this to happen, I'd be delighted.
As a Russian speaker I think it would be great! What would be an interesting
idea, although probably near-impossible one, is to be able to have networks
which would translate messages between countries.
>
> I would very much appreciate by private email suggestions about people to
> visit and the questions that *YOU* would ask were YOU going.
>
Visit the site demos and talk to people there. They'd be able to give you
information on what they did to get a connection, etc. I can get you the
address of the place in Moscow.
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