We sent news in and out of Russia during the 1991 coup attempt via USENET. You can read accounts of this effort at: http://bpastudio.csudh.edu/fac/lpress/articles/relcom.htm http://www.cs.oswego.edu/~dab/coup/PAPERS/ Archives of the USENET traffic and other sources during the time of the coup attempt are at: http://www.cs.oswego.edu/~dab/coup/). Larry