[151789] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett Watson)
Fri Mar 30 18:49:15 2012
From: Brett Watson <brett@the-watsons.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.1203301645270.2201@soloth.lewis.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:48:40 -0500
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 30, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Jon Lewis wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Henry Yen wrote:
>=20
>> 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".
>>=20
>> does anyone on NANOG have any thoughtful comments on this?
>=20
> UUNet's still been running NNTP/NNRP servers?
> I had an NNTP feed from them...back in 1995...when you could actually =
do a feed on a T1 and have room for dial-up customer traffic.
There's a flashback! I was still shoveling news over UUCP to customers =
in Texas in '93 :)
-b=
