[151783] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Fri Mar 30 18:04:34 2012
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: johnl@iecc.com (John Levine)
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:03:58 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <20120330215549.68551.qmail@joyce.lan>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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.
Those of us still doing work with USENET know that it isn't dead, far
from it, but we're aware that there's a certain amount of illicit
traffic.
It's kind of like the way that pr0n and w4rez dominate all the Internet,
but this doesn't seem to faze Internet network operators.
> Actually, it's fine with us that the ignorant masses think that usenet
> is dead, since it tends to keep out the riffraff.
And that's the difference between USENET and the Internet; we've
largely gotten our nice messaging network back now that all the AOL
newbies are instead attracted to all the forums and blogs of the
Internet; running a newsreader client is needlessly complex and may
be beyond some of them.
:-)
... JG
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Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net
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