>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 08:57:04 -0500 >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Susan Feiner) >Subject: Neo-Nazis on Net? >X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas >X-Comment: Feminist Economists Discussion Group > >Friends: this came to me via another list. I think many will find it of >interest. Susan > > >>>> >>>_______________________________________________________________________ >>>Subject: Nazi Group >>> >>>Folks, this seems important. Please forward this to everyone you know: >>> >>> 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: >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> 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 SISTANCE >>>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, and 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. >>> >>>----- End Included Message ----- >> >>Bruce B. Roberts >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Department of Economics >>University of Southern Maine >>Portland ME 04104-9300 >>(O) 207-780-5503 >>(H) 207-772-7047 >>fax 207-780-5507------------------------------------------------- >> > >Susan F. Feiner (o) 207 780 4966 >Economics & Women's Studies >96 Falmouth Street (fax) 207 780 5532 >University of Southern Maine >POBox 9300 (home) 207 772 7047 >Portland, Me 04104-9300 > > > > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >NOTICE FOR JOURNALISTS AND RESEARCHERS: Please ask for written permission >from all direct participants before quoting any material posted on FEMECON-L. > >
