[151838] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sat Mar 31 16:37:49 2012
Date: 31 Mar 2012 20:36:52 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <596B74B410EE6B4CA8A30C3AF1A155EA09D75214@RWC-MBX1.corp.seven.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>Seems perfectly reasonable to me. The NNTP protocol can be used for
>lots of things and not just public newsgroup discussions. For a company
>that has a lot of offices distributed around the world there could be
>many applications for it.
Microsoft uses it for support of their semi-public product betas. I
think they also use it for internal support.
R's,
John
