Re: old control messages by Russia's central bank

On Mar 14, 2025 at 3:06:50 PM CDT, "Marco Moock" <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote:

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.max
well.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.nacamar.de!newsfe
ed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!image.surnet.ru!WWW1.relc
om.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?

I cannot speak to the control message itself, but back when the Internet was
much smaller, almost every decently-sized organization that had a presence on
the Internet ran a Usenet server. It doesn't surprise me that the Central Bank
of Russia would have had servers.

Since neva.ru went offline some years ago, I don't think I've seen any Russian
servers in a Path header, at least not from the .ru TLD. Are there still any
in Russia that are peering?