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From: zwicky@sparkyfs.istc.sri.com (Elizabeth Zwicky)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: USENIX and South Africa
Message-ID: <32037@sparkyfs.istc.sri.com>
Date: 5 Jun 90 18:32:25 GMT
References: <1990Jun4.141811.1075@world.std.com> <13051@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: zwicky@stegosaur.itstd.sri.com.UUCP (Elizabeth Zwicky)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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In article <13051@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <1990Jun4.141811.1075@world.std.com> peter@world.std.com (Peter Salus) writes:
>>I see no reason why I should ...
>I wasn't aware that USENIX membership elected officers to do their
>political, social, or religious thinking and value judgment for them.
>Why don't you stick to functionally relevant business.

Peter is not now, and never was, an elected officer of USENIX. He was
for a while the Executive Director, but that is appointed, not
elected.  He now works for SUG, where I believe the issue of South
Africa has not arisen, and is a mere member of USENIX like the rest of
us, with an equal right to personal opinions. 

(And while I'm at it, South Africa *is* functionally relevant; the
political issues were raised by the U.S. government when they placed
the embargo that uunet is trying to deal with, not originally by
USENIX.)

	Elizabeth