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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">John Levine wrote:</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">> I discovered that there was a usenet node at the FAA test center in</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">> Pomona NJ which due to a quirk of telegeography was a local call even</div>
<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">> though it was over 30 miles away.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">RELCOM provided the gateway between Russia and Finland at the time of the Russian coup attempt of 1991 (http://cis471.blogspot.com/2011/01/before-twitter-revolutions-there-was.html).</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">About a week before the coup attempt, I was at a party at the home of RELCOM co-founder Vadim Antonov (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadim_Antonov) and noticed a terminal in his living
room. It turned out that calls in Moscow were free at the time and Vadim had not hung up the connection to his office for six months.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px">Larry<br>
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