[151787] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cameron Byrne)
Fri Mar 30 18:22:54 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLaZwWjF=b6q6Qfwg=72+zmios+EiuJ-HmykpUi5xajpwcQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:22:23 -0700
From: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 30, 2012 3:13 PM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Henry Yen <henry@aegisinfosys.com> 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?
>
> This is really about: "What do our customers pay for?" more than
> anything else. Keeping 12 diablo servers running for the zero actual
> customers who use them is ... patently a waste of assets.
>
> one server is ~1 sun-something + 1 large disk-array (at least)... so
> there's some significant savings in power and network ports alone.
>
> plus, Verizon is a Cellular carrier, just look at all of the
> advertisements you see for them, ever seen an "internet" add? or
Looks more like news groups than cellular to me. : /
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-K71MpwCko
Cb
> "usenet" ? (fios doesn't count as it's a move by VZ back to
> monopoly-carrier status, not "internet")
>
