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Today it takes longer for e-mail to travel from Zagreb to Belgrade than it took me to drive the same distance just six or so years ago. It takes forever to drive today. And you need two vehicles, one with Serbian and one with Croatian plates which you have to switch in Hungary (or at least two sets of plates). It seems like the Earth is composed of two planets, West and East, both flat, rubbing their sharp edges in desolate area which was earlier a main thoroughfare between Europe and Middle East. This is why e-mail becomes so important and why former Yugoslavia has the highest level of "on-line-ness" in former Eastern Europe.

Since I have been sort of a part of "political process" of deconstruction of that unfortunate country I took particular interest in what was going on there after I came here in the resources as possible to public attention. Special attention is given to the Zamir Transnational Net, the umbrella e-mail network that connects non-governmental anti-war and human rights organizations and handful of independent media in all parts of former Yugoslavia since the communications systems breakdown in 1991.