[151772] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (K. Scott Bethke)
Fri Mar 30 16:56:15 2012
From: "K. Scott Bethke" <scott@virtuaprise.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120330204119.GC23534@nntp.AegisInfoSys.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:55:21 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 30, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Henry Yen wrote:
> uunet/vzb "will terminate its United States Newsreader and Newsfeed
> services on March 31, 2012
<SNIP>
>=20
> does anyone on NANOG have any thoughtful comments on this?
No comment just a question... Why did it take so long? =20
All good things must come to an end. and for NNTP that end was when web =
based Forums software and P2P was invented. Seriously does anyone still =
use UUCP for email? I thought it should have died when pr0n and w4rez =
took it over (in the late 90's).. but that ended up fueling the need :) =
Who is the Kim Dotcom of usenet? Lets bust him and move on.
-Scott=
