USSR on Usenet
K. Chernenko
Well, today, 840401, this is at last the Socialist Union of Soviet
Republics joining the Usenet network and saying hallo to everybody.
One reason for us to join this network has been to have a means of
having an open discussion forum with the American and European people
and making clear to them our strong efforts towards attaining peaceful
coexistence between the people of the Soviet Union and those of the
United States and Europe.
We have been informed that on this network many people have given strong
anti-Russian opinions, but we believe they have been misguided by their
leaders, especially the American administration, who is seeking for war
and domination of the world.
By well informing those people from our side we hope to have a possibility
to make clear to them our intentions and ideas.
Some of those in the Western world, who believe in the truth of what we
say have made possible our entry on this network; to them we are very
grateful. We hereby invite you to freely give your comments and opinions.
Here are the data for our backbone site:
Name: moskvax
Organization: Moscow Institute for International Affairs
Contact: K. Chernenko
Phone: +7 095 840401
Postal-Address: Moscow, Soviet Union
Electronic-Address: mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko
News: mcvax kremvax kgbvax
Mail: mcvax kremvax kgbvax
And now, let's open a flask of Vodka and have a drink on our entry on
this network. So:
NA ZDAROVJE!
--
K. Chernenko, Moscow, USSR
...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!chernenko
Gary Benson
about the USSR on the USENET was bad form. Particularly when it appeared in
what many of us had come to rely on as the authoritative source for nuews
about the network.
Perhaps the perpetrator should be asked to pay all those long-distance phone
bills that resulted when many people (apparently) responded to this article
seriously and with a sense of the beginning of the start of a great
adventure in international communication.
Perhaps that individual should also be informed that April Fool's Day is not
the widespread celebration (?) that we in the US, in our culturo-centric
way, may sometimes think it is.
It looks as if there is at least one fool on this network.
--
From the ever smiling, .).
ever happy fingers of: V
Gary Benson + +
John Fluke Mfg. Co. ILLEGITIMI NON CARBORUNDUM
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Robert Reed
I can't believe the upset that the April fool's Usenet announcement has
caused. I think I can count myself among the majority at our site who
viewed the obvious fraud with admiration. Did you seriously believe that a
K. Chernenko at moskvax!kremvax really exists? kremvax? moskvax? Come on!
I would like to thank whoever sent it as a good jest, well executed and not
harmful in any way.
--
Robert Reed, Tektronix Logic Design Systems, tektronix!teklds!bobr
Jay Mitchell
first read the article, I was borderline on believing until I got to the
KGBvax signature. I thought it was very humurous and not at all in bad
taste. It certainly didnt take any more phone costs to post that and
generate reponses than any of the other lame-brain articles one sometimes
reads on the net. It seems that more comments are being generated from a
discussion of the article than the article itself did. And personally, I
believe that anybody (or any culture) who cant find humor in a joke,
whether or not it is April Fools Day, is seriously lacking in personality.