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Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 21:45:28 -0700
On 30/03/12 2:55 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.
I'm on a handful of not-tech discussion groups which are still fairly active. However, one of them is busy dying as most of the discussion traffic moved to a Facebook group. (I'm also on a number of mailing lists that are quickly dying as most of their traffic is also moving to Facebook groups.) We had a thread a few weeks ago in one group after an ISP announced they were dropping usenet, and customers of that ISP were being pointed to aioe and eternal-september.org as alternates (for text-only newsgroups).
jc
Current thread:
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US, (continued)
- 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 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)
- Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US JC Dill (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)