responses to this proposal by their acquaintances were mostly negative. many saw the idea as utopian and dangerous: while it was unclear whether the meeting would help sinyavsky and daniel, participants in any such meeting were likely to be arrested, their careers ruined. the idea of such a "glasnost meeting" did find support among small circles of high school and university students such as irina yakir, yuri galanskov, yuliya vishnevskaya, and vladimir bukovsky, who learned of the plan through the informal networks of the moscow intelligentsia. among them were several veterans of the unofficial mayakovsky square poetry readings and the literary group smog.