[106554] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is Usenet actually dead?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Mon Aug 4 17:43:49 2008
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:26:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080804162422.GL11750@cgi.jachomes.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Avi Freedman runs a decent service.
Gadi.
On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> Opinion pieces in Wired and AG's grandstanding by throwing babies out
> with bathwater notwithstanding, a query from a cow-orker caused me to
> wonder: is there still anyplace to get a Usenet feed from these days
> that isn't {Giga,Super,etc}News? I want to pull maybe 30 or 40 tech
> groups into my own server for the 5 or 6 people in my IT group.
>
> In lieu of How It Used To Be, does anyone have data or anecdotes on
> which of the commercial providers will let me run a server in-house?
>
> Off-list is fine; I can summarize if anyone really cares anymore. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> --
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