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From: news@m2xenix.psg.com (Randy Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: reaching RSA (South Africa)
Keywords: RSA South Africa
Message-ID: <1991Jan1.004002.3019@m2xenix.psg.com>
Date: 1 Jan 91 00:40:02 GMT
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While John's book is generally excellent, its various editions have always been
especially out of date with respect to South Africa.

.ZA is a registered domain.  .AC.ZA is the UNINET of the South African
universities.  For specific info on who the adressor may wish to reach, try
writing to the postmaster at one of the three most net.knowledgable sites

postmaster@quagga.ru.ac.za    Jacot Guillarmod
			      at Rhodes University in Grahamstown,
postmaster@ucthpx.uct.ac.za   Chris Pinkham
			      at University of Cape Town, or
postmaster@daisy.ee.und.ac.za Allan Barrett
			      at University of Natal at Durban

Shriekers can use
    ..!m2xenix!quagga!postmaster,
    ..!m2xenix!quagga!undeed!postmaster, or
    ..!m2xenix!quagga!ucthpx
respectively.

They also have SANET, which is an informal net of the non-academic uucp sites.
For info on those sites, I suggest writing to Chris Old as
    ..!ddsw1!olsa99!!ctk1!chris

News flows from here to that subset of university and SANET sites who are
willing to sign letters of assurance that they are not military or apartheid-
enforcing related agencies, nor is the info used or fed to folk in support of
such.

For the obvious political reasons, the South African uucp map as distributed by
Rutgers, u.zaf.1, is not at all up to date.  I maintain an up to date one here,
and publish occasionally in news.newsites.  For the addicted map collecter, I
can accomodate email requests.

If folk are interested, we could start soc.culture.southafrica, or
comp.mail.politics as an appropriate place to discuss the advisability of
having this connectivity.  I have suggested this a couple of times, as I know
that there are folk with valid points in opposition, and I really would like
some rational discussion.  The issue is neither easy nor clear cut.

Hope this helps.
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