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From: putnam@steinmetz.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Usenet should exclude South Africa
Message-ID: <631@steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Jan-86 06:07:34 EST
Article-I.D.: steinmet.631
Posted: Fri Jan 17 06:07:34 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jan-86 05:46:08 EST
References: <704@pucc-j> <132@molihp.UUCP>
Reply-To: putnam@kbsvax.UUCP (jefu)
Organization: GE CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Summary: 

In article <704@pucc-j> rsk@pucc-j (Wombat) writes:
>This may be premature, as I am not aware of any potential Usenet hosts
>in South Africa, but I think we should anticipate future developments
>and, as a body, refuse to connect any of our hosts to any host in South
>Africa until apartheid disappears from that country.
>-- 
>Rich Kulawiec  pucc-j!rsk or rsk@asc.purdue.edu

Considering all the talk we get in net.news.group and net.news about
  1) the impending demise of the net
  2) the horrible phone bills
  3) the incredible cost of sending yet another license plate, or a dinette
     set for sale, around the world
maybe it would be more punishment to _force_ the south africans to get Usenet,
and pay for all the phone bills.  (Maybe we could even reinstate net.flame,
and net.bizarre, just for them :-).

On a more serious note, the african nations that make the noise about south
africa import quite a bit of food and other 'necessaries' from them.  Sometimes
this is relabled to look less like it comes from south africa, but not always.
South african wine isnt bad (taint good, but taint bad) - and i bought it in
a store in Zaire, one of the countries that are fond of chastizing the 
americans for trading with south africa.  

I think it is probably far more effective to encourage companies, universities,
local governments... to stop investing in south africa, and to withdraw 
investments already made there.
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