[151768] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Mar 30 16:47:56 2012
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:47:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Henry Yen <henry@AegisInfoSys.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120330204119.GC23534@nntp.AegisInfoSys.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Henry Yen wrote:
> uunet/vzb "will terminate its United States Newsreader and Newsfeed
> services on March 31, 2012, with no plans to offer a replacement, and
> any content/data remaining after that date will be unrecoverably deleted".
>
> does anyone on NANOG have any thoughtful comments on this?
UUNet's still been running NNTP/NNRP servers?
I had an NNTP feed from them...back in 1995...when you could actually do a
feed on a T1 and have room for dial-up customer traffic.
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