[151773] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Fri Mar 30 16:56:18 2012
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: trelane@trelane.net (Andrew D Kirch)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:55:14 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <4F761CBA.3000503@trelane.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> On 3/30/2012 4:41 PM, 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?
>
> Obsolete protocol is obsolete?
Guessing: you mean ipv4?
Because NNTP is still alive and kicking.
... JG
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