1995 Fools: *** Bill Clinton on April 1st *** From: Bill Clinton <president@whitehouse.gov> Subject: April 1st Warning Date: 1 Apr 1995 08:37:08 GMT Organization: The White House Message-ID: <3ku0bk$pt4@vax.kremlin.su> NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.244.129.2 Net Citizens of the World! As the president of one of the countries that are connected by the international information highway, I believe it is my responsibility to save the world from the danger of being April-fooled by false Usenet postings. It has been brought to my attention that certain unfriendly computer specialists know ways to send forged postings, and that therefore every citizen of the net should be careful not to trust everything that appears on the net. Readers should be especially suspicious - if an article is attributed to a very famous person - if the host names in the From:, Path:, and Message-ID: headerlines of an article do not match, or - if an article contains a reference to the first day of April. Let me take this opportunity to express the gratitude of my country to Dr. Hubert Partl in Australia, who was so kind to inform me about the old Usenet tradition of forged postings around April 1st, and who sent me instructions on how to write and to post this article. Long live the net! Bill Clinton president@whitehouse.gov Washington DC