[151780] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Fri Mar 30 17:56:45 2012
Date: 30 Mar 2012 21:55:49 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4405831.9247.1333143108249.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> I thought it should have died when pr0n and
>> w4rez took it over (in the late 90's)..
Many of the tech groups remain quite healthy. I still moderate
comp.compilers which gets about 100 posts/month.
Actually, it's fine with us that the ignorant masses think that usenet
is dead, since it tends to keep out the riffraff.
R's,
John
