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From: wolit@mhuxd.UUCP (Jan Wolitzky)
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: Re: Usenet should exclude South Africa
Message-ID: <4061@mhuxd.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Jan-86 10:54:18 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 10 10:54:18 1986
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> 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

I'm not sure how threatened Pretoria would feel by a cutoff of Usenet,
but if one were to consider the indispensible role of the South
African passbook system in maintaining Apartheid, the indispensible
role of IBM computers in maintaining the passbook system, and the
indispensible role of U.S. computer professionals in maintaining IBM, 
then the possibility of a far more effective boycott might become 
apparent.
-- 
Jan Wolitzky, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ; 201 582-2998; mhuxd!wolit
(Affiliation given for identification purposes only)