[106555] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is Usenet actually dead?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Mon Aug 4 17:48:44 2008
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:19:16 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20080804162422.GL11750@cgi.jachomes.com> (Jay R. Ashworth's
message of "Mon, 4 Aug 2008 12:24:22 -0400")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
* Jay R. Ashworth:
> 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.
You should be able to get the Big 8 (without any binary junk) fairly
easily. Finding someone who manages your subscriptions using GUP (or
even manually *gasp*) could be more difficult, though, so receiving a
subset is likely not an option.
(I haven't got a Big 8 feed to offer, I'm sorry. The regional ISP I use
offers an NNTP feed managed by GUP.)
