X-Message-Number: 10307
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 06:51:58 -0400
From: Bozzonetti <>
Subject: Re: Banned in some countries

: said:

>WHAT?!?!  Are you serious?  In France it is illegal to subscribe to an 
>international astronomy journal?  This is beyond bizarre.  

Not in a formal way but indeed it is so when the journal is "The
Astrophysical Journal" published by The University of Chicago. It is a
professional astronomy journal with papers heavy loaded by long maths
formulas. This is too much for police inspection and there are authors from
Sandia Labs. or Los Alamos speaking about supernovae explosions, a subject
a hair away from simulated H bombs explosions on computers. So, the
simplest way for "the authorities" is to forbid any access at that
publication.

Democracy and freedom stop where maths start!

        Yvan.
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