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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: re: USSR on the net
Message-ID: <3678@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Apr-84 18:01:45 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  7 18:01:45 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Apr-84 05:45:26 EST
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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An open letter to Gary Benson:

   Oh, come now! The fact that the article appeared on April Fool's Day
was hardly the only indication it was a joke. kgbvax? kremvax? Chernenko
actually use a terminal? Do you really believe all that? Would you like
to buy some desert land? 

   The article did exactly what an April Fool's joke is supposed to do -
make a lot of people act like fools, if only for a few minutes. They have
no one but themselves to blame for their gullibility and the phone bills.  
But I can understand your (and their) reaction. People hate being made to
look like fools. 

   To whoever - Congrats for a job well done!

                                               nothing personal -
                                                    Jeff Winslow