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From: medin@ucbvax.ARPA (Milo Medin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Proposal for a Peace Network
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Date: Sat, 16-Mar-85 19:18:35 EST
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> 
> 	More than most others, readers of net.politics are probably aware
> 	of the great potential of this medium for facilitating communication
> 	between people, and providing a forum for the free exchange of ideas.
> 	A group of people at Cornell University is attempting to bring the
> 	power of electronic communication to the community of people around
> 	the country who are working for peace and social justice. This
> 	project hopes to establish a nation-wide dialup network of small
> 	computers that will allow this activist community to exchange
> 	mail, broadcast announcements, establish a netnews-like facility,
> 	track government legislation, do bibliographic searches, and in
> 	general achieve better coordination between groups of similar
> 	interest that are isolated from one another by geographical location
> 	or because of lack of access to information resources.
> 	At this point in the project, I am trying to establish contacts
> 	with people on the net who are active in peace and social justice
> 	work. My hope is that we will be able to share our interests, and
> 	technical expertise to get this project off the ground. Please
> 	do not reply to this message through the usual news channels, but
> 	send me mail at any of the addresses listed below.
> 
> 	
> 						Thanks,
> 
> 						Jim Ferwerda
> 
> 	jim@cornell (arpa)
> 	jim@crnlcs  (bitnet)
> 	allegra!
> 	decvax!
> 	uw-beaver!
> 		  cornell!jim (uucp)


I hope you don't plan on using DoD funded resources for political
activities, right or left wing.  Individuals just offering their
opinion on the net is tolerated by DCA, but this type of activity
will not be.  In fact, our campus research machines (paid for
by DARPA or NSF) are not to be used for this purpose, and I would
suspect CORNELL and many other places would have a similar policy.
Abuse of this type is what gets written up in 'golden fleece'
awards, and the network community doesn't need this type
of publicity.  


					Milo