[151806] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Sat Mar 31 00:46:03 2012
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:45:28 -0700
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
CC: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120330215549.68551.qmail@joyce.lan>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 30/03/12 2:55 PM, John Levine wrote:
>>> 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.
I'm on a handful of not-tech discussion groups which are still fairly
active. However, one of them is busy dying as most of the discussion
traffic moved to a Facebook group. (I'm also on a number of mailing
lists that are quickly dying as most of their traffic is also moving to
Facebook groups.) We had a thread a few weeks ago in one group after an
ISP announced they were dropping usenet, and customers of that ISP were
being pointed to aioe and eternal-september.org as alternates (for
text-only newsgroups).
jc
