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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 08:30:38 -0400 From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com> Subject: Army Plonks

Now that the terrified US Army has axed its Web sites, and NSA and several other mil sites seem inaccessible and "temporarily unavailable" this morning, could this portend a dual-use of the Internet, a closed one for porkbarrell mil and secret gov sweethearts and a sappy infotainment one for civilians to gameboy infofoolery?

That would be a tri-power-gov implementation of dual-use terror-scare to hide perkbellied privileges of natsec obsession.

It's called milnet and it's been in existance ever since about '83. It occured when ARPA became DARPA. I was working on a DoD project at UT Austin at the time. ____________________________________________________________________ The seeker is a finder. Ancient Persian Proverb The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------