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From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson)
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: re: USSR on Usenet
Message-ID: <238@tpvax.fluke.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Apr-84 13:26:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  6 13:26:57 1984
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I want to voice my support of those who feel that the "April Fool's" joke
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.

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