[151769] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Fri Mar 30 16:51:17 2012
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: jlewis@lewis.org (Jon Lewis)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:50:33 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1203301645270.2201@soloth.lewis.org>
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.
UUNet hasn't been relevant to USENET for many, many, many years.
... JG
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