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From: acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng)
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Subject: Re: Why not pick *nice* places for the Usenix conventions?
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Date: 28 Jun 91 14:47:41 GMT
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>> I'm horrified that USENIX will be meeting in New Orleans, in a 
>> state that has the most repressive view of women's right to 
>> choice of all the fifty states.
>
>i'd agree that we cannot simply do nothing, for,
>as always, silence kills.

USENIX is a computer association and I would prefer it stay that way.
Every city is either too conservative, or too liberal, or too left,
or too right, or too middle to someone.