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1997 Fools: April Fools' Day (Long)
Subject: April Fools' Day (Long) From: vegasmj <mj29@vegas.infi.net> Date: 1997/04/01 Message-Id: <3340C50B.42FC@vegas.infi.net> Newsgroups: alt.penpals.forty-plus-yrs April Fools’ Day, 1999 - Did anyone else reading the comic strips with their coffee get a smile out of some of the characters being in other strips? No one knows where the traditions originated but, from Britain’s April Fool’s Day to the French custom of pinning April fish to the sleeves of the most gullible victims, the first day of the month of April is a worldwide festival of trickery. No one agrees on whether it is April Fools’ Day or April Fool’s Day but Fools’ seems to be the most used. Some blame it on the French when they adopted a reformed calendar in 1564 that moved the New Year up from April 1 to January 1. Those who didn’t get the word in time (no email then) became known as April fools. Others sources believe it’s a descendent of May Day or the Roman Saturnalia - a period of unrestrained, orgiastic revelry - now celebrated by American college students under the name spring break. The follow are the 1997 April Fools’ Day messages I found in my search this a.m. They are all a JOKE. (shouting intended) Happened to find them and thought you might find one in your mailbox so wanted everyone to be aware these gags are around. If these are there, must be others. My first Fool’s or Fools’ Day on the Net might be interesting. :-0 April Fool's system notice for 1997. [ 4-01-97] UNIX Mail to be replaced by DEC Workstation. Due to almost daily performance and security problems with email, UNIX email will be removed this weekend. Email will then be handled by a DEC workstation running Open VMS. Users will need to login to vms.engr.utk.edu to read and send mail. Users who use POP mail servers should set the POP server to vmspop.engr.utk.edu. [ 4-01-97] Disaster planned for this weekend. As part of emergency planning, an unplanned disaster has been scheduled for this Saturday morning at 8:00. The disaster will last for eight hours. During the disaster, servers will be unavailable, mail will be misdelivered, and user files will be lost. Following the disaster, machines will be rebooted randomly. A committee has been formed to examine the staffs' response to the disaster. At this point, there are no plans to recover lost email or files. However, this may be changed during the next scheduled unplanned disaster. [ 4-01-97] Increase in Student Technology Fee. The student technology fee will be increased from $100 per semester to $150 per semester. The reason for the increase is to provide reliable and quiet air conditioning for the computer labs. [ 4-01-97] Netscape, Mosaic, Lynx, and College Web Server to be removed. In an effort to reduce the load on our network, Network Services has asked that all software associated with the World Wide Web be removed from our systems. As very little of the web is useful for educational or research needs, the impact of this service removal is thought to be minimal. After network upgrades, Network Services will decide if Web services should be allowed back on the network. Any users installing these programs within their home directories will have their accounts terminated. Reminder, the messages are jokes. Use at your own risk. ;-) mj
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