[151840] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Sat Mar 31 17:23:46 2012
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:23:12 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120331203652.5282.qmail@joyce.lan>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, John Levine wrote:
>> 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.
We used it at work for many years for that same purpose, however all of
those support functions were migrated to mailing lists over the past few
years, and the news server itself was finally de-commissioned last year.
jms
