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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:25:13 +1000 (EST)
From: Jasper Goss <J.Goss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: m.berger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: g9304825@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, sa.newman@xxxxxxxxxxx,
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Subject: fight the right
Hey- this was passed on to me by a friend in Sydney. I think this is worth
considering. If you have time please respond and post the message to other
people you believe might be concerned about this.
take care
jasper
>>>
>>> A group of NEO-NAZIS are trying to form a newsgroup on Usenet called
>>> "rec.music.white-power", so that they can get their message of hate out
>>> to young people using the Internet. Newsgroups are public discussions on
>>> the Internet and their formation requires enough support from the
>>> Internet community.
>>>
>>> EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US HAS ONE VOTE when it comes to creating a
>>> new Usenet group. I hope you will vote NO and thereby tell these NAZIS
>>> we don't want their stuff on the net. Below is the procedure, please
>>> repost this plea and get the NO vote out. If you want to see the
>>> official call for votes, you can try on "news.group".
>>>
>>> DO NOT VOTE TWICE - that would constitute voting fraud.
>>>
>>> HOW TO VOTE:
>>>
>>> Send e-mail (posts to newsgroups are invalid) to:
>>>
>>> music-vote@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>> This is an impartial, third party vote taker. Please check the address
>>> before you mail your vote. Your mail message, to be accepted by the
>>> counting computer, must contain only the following statement with no
>>> signature:
>>>
>>> I vote NO on rec.music.white-power
>>>
>>> Vote counting is automated. Failure to follow these directions
>>> may mean that your vote does not get counted. If you do not receive
>>> an acknowledgment of your vote within three days contact the votetaker
>>> about the problem. It's your responsibility to make sure your vote is
>>> registered correctly.
>>>
>>> Here's what Canada's George Burdi, of the neo-Nazi Heritage Front,
>>> had to say about this vote, on February 21, on his RESISTANCE mailing
>>> list:
>>>
>>> "There is a call for votes coming on rec.music.white-power in the
>>> next week or so, and you will be notified in a special issue of RREN
>>> exactly what to do. FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LETTER. Let me be
>>> perfectly blunt and state that we have more than enough net-nazis to
>>> win this thing handsdown. But every one of you must vote YES! And
>>> just voting yes means nothing unless you do it properly. So you have
>>> been forewarned. The instructions are coming to your email box soon,
>>> nd they are not complicated. Just follow them as told, and we will
>>> have a WP music newsgroup finally!"
>>>
>>> If Mr. Burdi's confidence disturbs you, please give this letter the
>>> widest possible distribution, and help us deliver the largest NO vote in
>>> the history of the UseNet.
>>> Barbara Rockburn
>>> School of Canadian Studies
>>> Carleton University
>>> Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6
>>> email: brockbur@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> or: barbara.rockburn@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Jasper Goss
Science Policy Research Centre
Faculty of Science and Technology
Griffith University
Nathan QLD 4111
Australia
email j.goss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
phone +61 7 3875 7683
fax +61 7 3875 7656
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