[151771] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Ryu)
Fri Mar 30 16:55:33 2012
In-Reply-To: <20120330204119.GC23534@nntp.AegisInfoSys.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:54:47 -0500
From: Alex Ryu <r.hyunseog@ieee.org>
To: Henry Yen <henry@aegisinfosys.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Less, and less people keep using Usenet...
A lot of people just use Search Engine, Web download, P2P...
I guess given the traffic and data too stored, it may not be useful for the
effort to keep Usenet service running.
Alex
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Henry Yen <henry@aegisinfosys.com> 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?
>
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