From: IN%"tgriggs who-is-at oise.on.ca" "Thomas Griggs" 18-MAY-1996 05:16
To: IN%"ihw1058 who-is-at mvs.oac.ucla.edu" "Bob Agajeenian", IN%"70421.3024@compuserve.com" "Brian Bisnett", IN%"David_Booth@gateway.feut.utoronto.ca" "David Booth", IN%"jcummins@oise.on.ca" "Jim Cummins", IN%"0006672704@mcimail.com" "Brian Carpenter"
CC:
Subj: Fwd: Neo-Nazi Internet Alert (fwd)
Dear friends:
Read this and respond if you are so moved.
Cheers,
Tom
Phone: (416) 693-6510
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-0500 (CDT) From: peggy hartford <hartford who-is-at io.com>
To: msh who-is-at io.com,withbeck@aol.com, c.brent.b@mail.utexas.edu,
tgriggs who-is-at oise.on.ca, KeliJ7@aol.com, RtAngle090@aol.com,
drakeley who-is-at csn.net
Subject: Fwd: Neo-Nazi Internet Alert
IF YOU GOT THIS TWICE PLEASE JUST TRASH ONE OF EM.
About ..Internet Alert!!
Please take a moment to read this and participate if you are so moved.
Thanks.
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"Just yesterday B'nai B'rith's annual report (Canada) on
hate and racism located the net as the one source of
exploding and uncontrollable dissemination of hate mail.
I feel strongly that every NO vote on the formation of a
neo-Nazi newsgroup is a public and civilized blow
against a pernicious, evil movement. Please vote to
affirm society's rejection of neo-Nazis. Please
distribute the following message as you deem
appropriate.
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 discussion areas on the
Internet and their formation requires enough support
from the Internet community.
EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU HAS ONE VOTE when it comes to
creating a new Usenet group. I hope you will vote NO and
thereby tell these Nazis you don't want their stuff on
the net. Below is the procedure, please repost my plea
and get the NO vote out. This is my personal opinion.
If you want to see the official call for votes, you can
read in news.group or ask me for a copy of the notice
calling for votes.
Do not vote twice - that would constitute voting fraud.
HOW TO VOTE:
Send E-MAIL (posts to a newsgroup are invalid) to:
music-vote who-is-at sub-rosa.com
and in THE BODY OF THE MESSAGE WRITE:
I vote NO on rec.music.white-power
AND NOTHING ELSE IN THE MESSAGE BODY.
This is an impartial, third-party vote taker.
Do not REPLY to THIS message, if you are trying to vote.
Please do not assume that just replying to this message
will work. Check the address before you mail your vote.
Your mail message should contain only one statement:
I vote NO on rec.music.white-power
I REALLY HOPE YOU VOTE NO!
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 hands-down. 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 UseNet. If
you would like more detailed information on why you
should vote no, check out http://nizkor.almanac.bc.ca -
although it should be noted that the Nizkor Project has
no connection to this personal plea."
Gary Romalis
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