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Re: Discrimination against small countries, or just my own ignorance?

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From: Steve.Withers
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 11:27
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In article <1992Sep1.074232.28071@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
> In article <1992Aug30.210816.19452@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:
> >Sun 30-Aug-92: Obtained a current list of Finnish BBSes and their
> >phone numbers.  It is available as
> 
> If not, _*then*_ I must ask is UseNet disciminating against
> information from smaller countries, or is this a case xenophobia
> from a single North American individual.  Although not so frequent
> any more, unfortunately I still occasionally run into these
> attitudes in running an FTP archive site outside the States. 
> 
> The BBS list I refer to is perfectly usable from outside of Finland. 

It's called comp.bbs.misc (not comp.bbs.usa.misc) and it is a world-wide
newsgroup.
 
Post your finnish list all you like. I will see if I can find a New Zealand
list somewhere and post that, too.

Anyone have a South African BBS list? I'd like to call a few.

Steve

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