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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: USENIX and South Africa
Message-ID: <13055@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 5 Jun 90 15:34:30 GMT
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In article <1239@mtxinu.UUCP> shore@mtxinu.com (Melinda Shore) writes:
>In article <13051@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>>I wasn't aware that USENIX membership elected officers to do their
>>political, social, or religious thinking and value judgment for them.
>How do you make your voting decisions?

For USENIX officers, I try to pick those that I think are most likely
to enhance the UNIX community's experience as such.  It is a terrible
design-level mistake to have ALL organizations addressing the SAME
issues.  USENIX's business is UNIX, not apartheid.  Surely you can
see the distinction.