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Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis () lewis org>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:31:20 -0400 (EDT)
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Joe Greco wrote:
Those of us still doing work with USENET know that it isn't dead, far from it, but we're aware that there's a certain amount of illicit traffic.
A certain amount? Even years and years ago, when I last ran a server, I'd wager porn and warez was statistically "all" of the traffic.
It's kind of like the way that pr0n and w4rez dominate all the Internet, but this doesn't seem to faze Internet network operators.
Perhaps because the pr0n and w4rez are just bits on the wire for most operators, not terabytes of disk space on servers we own.
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- 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 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 Rich Kulawiec (Mar 31)
- 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)