Syndicate: Re: yu-students offline? (fwd)

[Vesna Manojlovic <becha@xs4all.nl>]

thanks, beri!

On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Berislav Todorovic wrote:

> PLEASE, PROCEED THIS MESSAGE TO THE APPROPRIATE LISTS
> 
> >> Last point: we understand from
> >> our friends in Yugoslavia that students at Belgrade University and
> >> throughout Serbia, 30,000 to 40,000 in total, have had their Internet
> >> access cut off.  The official explanation, believe it or not, is that
> >> this will prevent Yugoslav students from hacking machines in Nato
> >> countries, thereby provoking disconnection of the country's Academic
> >> Network.  It says something about the importance of the Internet that
> >> it has not served the purposes of the Yugoslav authorities to shut it
> >> down altogether.
> >> 
> >> [can anybody confirm?]
> 
> Not quite true. Here's what really happened: the Serbian Ministry of
> Education decided to suspend the work of schools and universities in
> Serbia, during the NATO airstrikes. Following that decision, some
> university computer centers closed the doors of their terminal/PC
> rooms. The servers and access equipment, however, still works without
> any problems, so students having PC w/modems at their homes can STILL
> access the Net without any major problem.
> 
> All of us network administrators are giving our best to help our
> users as much as we can.
> 
> NOTE: I'm speaking on my behalf - not on behalf of the University of
> Belgrade, nor any other institution.
> 
> Regards,
> Beri
> 
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