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From: Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de>
Newsgroups: news.admin.misc
Subject: old control messages by Russia's central bank
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 21:06:50 +0100
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Hello!

When doing some research I found rather strange stuff:

ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/comp/comp.compression.gz

=46rom usenet Fri May 16 22:03:52 2003
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Subject: cmsg newgroup comp.compression
Control: newgroup comp.compression
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:43:34 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Central Bank Of Russia
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Control Message

It looks like this was indeed of the central bank of Russia - or was
the path forged?

Does somebody know more about that?

Why did the bank operate a Usenet server?

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kind regards
Marco

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