jmoore@mips.UUCP (Jim Moore) (01/11/86)
> This may be premature, as I am not aware of any potential Usenet hosts > in South Africa, but I think we should anticipate future developments > and, as a body, refuse to connect any of our hosts to any host in South > Africa until apartheid disappears from that country. > -- > Rich Kulawiec pucc-j!rsk or rsk@asc.purdue.edu If the issue should arise, I would invite the opportunity to exchange ideas with the people living with the situation in South Africa. Should we follow the lead of Prime Minister Bote(sp?), and censor information flow between South Africa and the rest of world? Economic sanctions obviously do serve to put pressure on a country to behave in a particular manner. But I fail to see what information flow sanctions could do except help a repressive government hide its dirty laundry. Jim Moore MIPS Computer Systems ucbvax!decwrl!mips!jmoore
nyssa@abnji.UUCP (nyssa of traken) (01/13/86)
The subject of boycotting or not South Africa may be a legal one.
Does anyone know the current state of Government regulation on the
flow of technical information to South Africa?
--
James C. Armstrong, Jnr. {ihnp4,cbosgd,akgua}!abnji!nyssa
"It's a sort of mini-clone!" Who said them, what story?dave@quest.UUCP (David Messer) (01/20/86)
> Does anyone know the current state of Government regulation on the > flow of technical information to South Africa? What has that to do with USENET? :-) -- David Messer UUCP: ...ihnp4!quest!dave ...ihnp4!encore!vaxine!spark!14!415!sysop FIDO: 14/415 (SYSOP)