From: Arun Mehta <amehta@doe.ernet.in>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 1996 06:04:02 +0800
To: David A Wagner <daw@dawn7.cs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: Firewall USA to Firewall China
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> Hmm, I'd argue that firewall technology would indeed let China
> filter out many "subversive" thoughts on the Internet.

All it needs is for someone to broadcast Usenet via satellite over Asia, 
as Pagesat does in the US, or use radio. No firewall can keep that out.

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stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house 
as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any."--Gandhi