From: jf_avon@citenet.net (Jean-Francois Avon (JFA Technologies, QC, Canada))
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:06:29 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Downsizing the NSA
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Timothy C. May wrote:

>AT&T is downsizing, IBM downsized a while back, so why couldn't the NSA
>just do the right thing: admit that the Soviet threat is no more,
>congratulate the victors, and downsize by 20,000 employees?

Your post is very interesting.  I would like to add to it in the form of a question:

Q) What are the factors, in what context did AT&T and IBM and many other big companies downsize?  Or, in other words: What are the ultimate contextual causes of the downsizing?


Regards to Cypherpunks from a new guy on the mailing list.

JFA