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Re: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US
From: Henry Yen <henry () AegisInfoSys com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:15:58 -0400
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 20:40:06PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
Just curious, what's the source of this uunet announcement (as in a link or cite, not "uunet!")? On March 30, 2012 at 16:41 henry () AegisInfoSys com (Henry Yen) 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".
it was a written letter to (some or all) transit customers of verizonbusiness. no, the word "uunet" isn't in there, but that's how i think of them, even before wcom and mci (and metro fiber). i was more interested in comments regarding the feed (nntp) side rather than the reader (lotsa choices, including gated feeds, dejanews/google, etc.). -- Henry Yen <Henry.Yen () Aegis00 com> Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York 1-800-AEGIS-00 (800-234-4700)
Current thread:
- RE: uunet ends newsfeed/newsreader in US, (continued)
- 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)