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From: I.G.B... Ian G Batten
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 1990 10:30

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jo...@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
> How do we know that the entire thing isn't an elaborate hoax?  There

The postmaster at mcsun --- the European gateway --- would know.  I'm a
little suspicious about:

>         isi.itfs.nsk.su - Institute of Systems Researches (Novosibirsk)

OK, nsk == Novosibirsk

But

>         kaija.spb.su    - Center KAIJA (Leningrad)
>         iias.spb.su     - Institute of Informatique (Leningrad)

Recall that Leningrad was, before 1917, St. Petersburg.  Is this a
likely sub-domain?  Renaming Stalingrad as Volgograd was fair enough
during de-Stalinization following the Secret Speach, but de-Leninisation
hasn't started yet...

ian

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