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From: gst%wjh12@husc6.harvard.edu (Gary S. Trujillo)
Newsgroups: misc.headlines.unitex
Subject: Re: NativeNet startup
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Date: 7 Oct 89 12:31:30 GMT
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In article <3327@ccnysci.UUCP> unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org (unitex) writes:
>
> Forwarded-From: 
> rutgers!wjh12.harvard.edu!think!ima!gnosys!gst (Gary S. Trujillo [me])
>
> Fellow NativeNetters,
>
> This is just a note to make sure I have correct addresses for everyone
> on the mailing list, and to give an outline of how I am envisioning
> this thing to work.

Well, I had not intended that this message be posted to misc.headlines.unitex,
but - seeing as the cat's out of the bag :-) now, I guess I should say a few
words on what's up.

The basics are that I am facilitating a new mailing-list, which will not be
limited to Usenet folks, but which will also be available to people with
accounts on such systems as PeaceNet, which will deal with the subject of
the native peoples and natural resources of the world, and how they have
been unfairly exploited during the past several hundred years especially.
It will also be germane to the discussion to go into such subjects as the
importance and value of the cultures of the Native Peoples of the world,
and that of the rich biotic diversity of intact ecosystems - so it's not
intended to be just about problems, but also about exploring the richness
of the ethnic and biological heritage protected throughout millenia by the
people who have largely been displaced and, IMHO, exploited by colonizing
powers and their institutions.

Given that I have not had time yet to draft a formal announcement - partly
due to wanting to get some help from the few people presently on the list,
which was formed only a week ago, and partly since I've been doing some
exploring of how to work out the mechanics of administering such a list.
I have now acquired software (thank again to Karl Kleinpaste of Ohio State
University) for handling a mailing list, and hope to get some experience
using it on a small scale during the next week or so.

I'll post a formal announcement of the creation of the group ASAP.  Don't
worry that you'll miss anything though, if you're interested, as I plan to
make available "back-issue" postings which are distributed to the present
members of the list during the trial-run period.  Meanwhile, I think I'll
drop UNITEX from the list, just to prevent accidental "leaks" in future.

I will, however, post details in this newsgroup, as well as a few others
of related interest.  If you do have an interest in this idea, you might
start thinking of what you'd like to say about yourself by way of intro-
duction, or actually prepare that introduction, so that it's ready to
send when the mailing-list is formally announced.

Thanks for your patience!

Regards to all.

--
Gary S. Trujillo			      {linus,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!gnosys!gst
Somerville, Massachusetts		      {wjh12,ima,stech,cdp}!gnosys!gst

[ This message posted from my account at Harvard University. ]

-- 
	Gary Trujillo
	(gst@wjh12.harvard.edu)

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