[151874] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Bertoch)
Sun Apr 1 20:37:41 2012
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:37:07 -0400
From: Jason Bertoch <jason@i6ix.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20120330215549.68551.qmail@joyce.lan>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 3/30/2012 5:55 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.
>
> Actually, it's fine with us that the ignorant masses think that usenet
> is dead, since it tends to keep out the riffraff.
>
> R's,
> John
>
+1
