rsk@pucc-j (Wombat) (01/09/86)
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
wolit@mhuxd.UUCP (Jan Wolitzky) (01/10/86)
> 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 I'm not sure how threatened Pretoria would feel by a cutoff of Usenet, but if one were to consider the indispensible role of the South African passbook system in maintaining Apartheid, the indispensible role of IBM computers in maintaining the passbook system, and the indispensible role of U.S. computer professionals in maintaining IBM, then the possibility of a far more effective boycott might become apparent. -- Jan Wolitzky, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ; 201 582-2998; mhuxd!wolit (Affiliation given for identification purposes only)