🚀 go-pugleaf

In <1991Jun3.100523.17917@agora.rain.com> trifid@agora.rain.com (Roadster Racewerks) writes:

>[low cost links to developing countries...]
>I maintain it *can* be done...and if the people knew what it would mean to them
>to be able to talk with others in their field on a daily basis, they'd be
>clamoring for it. Never forget  how much harder it is to hate "those guys" once
>you've been exchanging ideas on a personal level, either. I think peace might
>even break out some day....

Let's keep plugging this theme, because it is very correct IMHO. And
apart from keeping in touch with the indigenous people, it is far
more likely that visitors will be attracted to low-tech countries if
they know that they can readily keep in touch with home base via email.
Practical experience in this neck of the woods shows that good email links
can be established with PCs and a modem, and the will to get on with it.

And peace could break out - don't tell me, I've noticed the changes
in my country since we got onto the networks. And folk that I
communicate with develop an understanding of our problems, it all
helps.

Mike
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Mike Lawrie
Director Computing Services, Rhodes University, South Africa
.....................<ccml@hippo.ru.ac.za>..........................
Rhodes University condemns racism and racial segregation