old control messages by Russia's central bank

Hello!

When doing some research I found rather strange stuff:

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

From usenet Fri May 16 22:03:52 2003
Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar..de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!image.surnet.ru!WWW1.relcom.ru!demos!twin1.cbr.ru!twin2.cbr.ru!not-for-mail
From: news@cbr.ru (news)
Newsgroups: comp.compression
Subject: cmsg newgroup comp.compression
Control: newgroup comp.compression
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:43:34 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: Central Bank Of Russia
Lines: 1
Approved: news@cbr.ru
Message-ID: <b8be26$c5b$1@mx2.cbr.ru>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mx2
X-Trace: mx2.cbr.ru 1051278214 12459 10.85.53.21 (25 Apr 2003 13:43:34 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@cbr.ru
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:43:34 +0000 (UTC)
Xref: shelby.stanford.edu control.newgroup:204648

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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