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Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
From: "K. Scott Bethke" <scott () virtuaprise com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:55:21 -0400
On Mar 30, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Henry Yen wrote:
uunet/vzb "will terminate its United States Newsreader and Newsfeed services on March 31, 2012
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does anyone on NANOG have any thoughtful comments on this?
No comment just a question... Why did it take so long? All good things must come to an end. and for NNTP that end was when web based Forums software and P2P was invented. Seriously does anyone still use UUCP for email? I thought it should have died when pr0n and w4rez took it over (in the late 90's).. but that ended up fueling the need :) Who is the Kim Dotcom of usenet? Lets bust him and move on. -Scott
Current thread:
- uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Henry Yen (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Jon Lewis (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Joe Greco (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Brett Watson (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Andrew D Kirch (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Joe Greco (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Rich Kulawiec (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Joe Greco (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Alex Ryu (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US K. Scott Bethke (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Jay Ashworth (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US John Levine (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Joe Greco (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Jon Lewis (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Miles Fidelman (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Jimmy Hess (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US JC Dill (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US John R. Levine (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Michael Rathbun (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Landon Stewart (Mar 31)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Jay Ashworth (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Jon Lewis (Mar 30)