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Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:13:15 -0400
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Henry Yen <henry () aegisinfosys com> wrote:
uunet/vzb "will terminate its United States Newsreader and Newsfeed services on March 31, 2012, with no plans to offer a replacement, and any content/data remaining after that date will be unrecoverably deleted". does anyone on NANOG have any thoughtful comments on this?
This is really about: "What do our customers pay for?" more than anything else. Keeping 12 diablo servers running for the zero actual customers who use them is ... patently a waste of assets. one server is ~1 sun-something + 1 large disk-array (at least)... so there's some significant savings in power and network ports alone. plus, Verizon is a Cellular carrier, just look at all of the advertisements you see for them, ever seen an "internet" add? or "usenet" ? (fios doesn't count as it's a move by VZ back to monopoly-carrier status, not "internet")
Current thread:
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US, (continued)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Joe Greco (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Justin M. Streiner (Mar 31)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Miles Fidelman (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US JC Dill (Mar 30)
- RE: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US George Bonser (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Miles Fidelman (Mar 30)
- RE: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US George Bonser (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US John Levine (Mar 31)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Michael Painter (Mar 31)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Justin M. Streiner (Mar 31)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Cameron Byrne (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Jeroen van Aart (Mar 30)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US C. A. Fillekes (Mar 31)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US Henry Yen (Mar 30)