[151794] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Fri Mar 30 20:00:26 2012
From: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "K. Scott Bethke" <scott@virtuaprise.com>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:59:46 +0000
In-Reply-To: <65CCB887-E0BF-42F9-95E7-691208BE9E63@virtuaprise.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> No comment just a question... Why did it take so long?
>=20
> 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? I thought it should have died when pr0n and
> w4rez took it over (in the late 90's).. but that ended up fueling the
> need :) Who is the Kim Dotcom of usenet? Lets bust him and move on.
>=20
> -Scott
I think there is still a place for things like NNTP and UUCP but maybe not =
as they were used in the past. Private NNTP groups could be used to create=
discussion boards or even a coordination system for emergency response wit=
h each jurisdiction having its own group hierarchy. UUCP could be used to =
move mail and "news" between locations via telephone dial if the convention=
al internet is broken. UUCP has the advantage of moving email for entire d=
omains rather than simply a user. It could be a good emergency backup or u=
sed in places where Internet connectivity is spotty/denied but telephone se=
rvice is available.
In fact I once had an idea of using NNTP as the "backend" database for a di=
stributed ticketing system though it wouldn't "look" like NNTP from the UI.
