Many people in the Canadian sector are still living in miserable conditions, with bad winter weather closing in. After hours, the Canadian military and civilian personnel serving in Bosnia are behind barbed wire. Off duty, most cannot go farther than the bootleg CD shops that have sprouted just beyond the camp gates, and then only in pairs. Everyone is restricted to two beers or glasses of wine a day, and 'fraternization', familiar physical contact of any kind, is strictly forbidden. Needless to say, in that kind of atmosphere, with lots of physically fit young people with time on their hands, tensions can rise.
Personal computers provide a good way for people to escape their physical confines.
We do the Hotmail thing. Military and civilian alike use the Internet for email and surfing, but many also use it to plan their rest and recreation time out of Bosnia and make their travel reservations, he said. The Department of National Defence has contracted for dedicated Internet terminals at every Canadian base in Bosnia, and asked the contractor, ATCO-Frontec to provide a completely separate connection. That means personal time will no longer be a lower priority than DND business voice and data calls. That's because Cpl.