[151804] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Yen)
Fri Mar 30 23:16:52 2012
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:15:58 -0400
From: Henry Yen <henry@AegisInfoSys.com>
To: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
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On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 20:40:06PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
> Just curious, what's the source of this uunet announcement (as in a
> link or cite, not "uunet!")?
>
> On March 30, 2012 at 16:41 henry@AegisInfoSys.com (Henry Yen) 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".
it was a written letter to (some or all) transit customers of verizonbusiness.
no, the word "uunet" isn't in there, but that's how i think of them, even
before wcom and mci (and metro fiber).
i was more interested in comments regarding the feed (nntp) side rather
than the reader (lotsa choices, including gated feeds, dejanews/google, etc.).
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