[151776] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Mar 30 17:32:58 2012
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:31:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <65CCB887-E0BF-42F9-95E7-691208BE9E63@virtuaprise.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "K. Scott Bethke" <scott@virtuaprise.com>
> No comment just a question... Why did it take so long?
>
> 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?
Yeah, that has nothing to do with whether Usenet is useful.
Nobody (to speak of) has used UUCP for *Usenet* since about 1997 or 8.
> I thought it should have died when pr0n and
> w4rez took it over (in the late 90's)..
And yet, I was a fairly active participant in several tech and rec groups
in 96 and 02-04ish, and it seemed perfectly serviceable to me.
Cheers,
-- jra
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